The Economy of Death: New Research on Collective Burial Spaces in Rome from the Late Republic to the Late Roman Time
Broschiertes Buch

The Economy of Death: New Research on Collective Burial Spaces in Rome from the Late Republic to the Late Roman Time

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Herausgegeben: Zimmermann, Norbert; Fröhlich, Thomas
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The contributions of this volume study economic aspects of Roman burial architectures for extended numbers of burials, such as columbaria, large hypogea, or catacombs, and try to form a picture of their owners and users. They discuss how far economic reasons played a leading role in the invention, the development and the use of these big burial monuments in Rome and how these buildings fulfilled the religious and social needs of their users, especially in the transitional period from the Roman to the Early Christian period. New studies in Roman funeral monuments could document interesting evid...