Crisis and Ambition: Tombs and Burial Customs in Third-Century CE RomeOUP Oxford, 3 oct 2013 - 308 páginas Tombs and burial customs are an exquisite source for social history, as their commemorative character inevitably expresses much of the contemporaneous ideology of a society. This book presents, for the first time, a holistic view of the funerary culture of Rome and its surroundings during the third century AD. While the third century is often largely ignored in social history, it was a transitional period, an era of major challenges - political, economic, and social - which inspired creativity and innovation, and paved the way for the new system of late antiquity. Barbara Borg argues that during this time there was, in many ways, a return to practices known from the Late Republic and early imperial period, with spectacular monuments for the rich, and a large-scale reappearance of collective burial spaces. Through a study of terraced tombs, élite monuments, the catacomb nuclei, sarcophagi, and painted image decoration, this volume explores how the third century was an exciting period of experimentation and creativity, a time when non-Christians and Christians shared fundamental ideas, needs, and desires as well as cemeteries, tombs, and hypogea. Ambition continued to be a driving force and a determining factor in all social classes, who found innovative solutions to the challenges they encountered. |
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the third century | 1 |
2 Traditional cemeteries and tombs | 9 |
3 Innovation and new designs | 41 |
4 Underground tombs | 59 |
5 Longterm use and reuse | 123 |
6 Sarcophagi | 161 |
7 Sarcophagi in context | 213 |
8 Interior decoration | 241 |
9 Conclusions | 271 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Acilii aedicula Appia arcosolia arcosolium attested Aurelii Basilica Berlin Bisconti brick building burial chamber burial space buried casket catacombs catacumbas cemetery centre Christian columbaria cubicula cubiculum deceased decoration depicted discussed Domitilla Dresken-Weiland early third century élite entrance epigraphic equestrian erected evidence Ewald excavated Feraudi-Gruénais figure Fiocchi Nicolai floor fossae fourth century freedmen front funerary galleries graves Heinzelmann Hesberg hunt hypogea hypogeum iconography images imperial inscriptions Ipogeo Isola Sacra later Liverani loculi LTURS marble mausolea Mausoleum Mielsch monuments mosaic Necropoli Vaticane necropolis niches Novatianus opus vittatum original Ostia pagan painted patrons Porta portrait Praetextatus precinct Pretestato Priscilla re-use rear wall Reinsberg,ASR 1.3 Roma Roman Rome römischen sarcophagi Sarkophagbestattungen scenes second century senatorial Severan Sichtermann similar Spera status strigilated suggests temple tomb third century Tolotti tomb’s Vatican City vault via Appia via Latina via Laurentina via Triumphalis villa Zanker