Format:
XX, 308 S.
,
zahlr. Ill., Kt.
Edition:
1. ed.
ISBN:
0199672733
,
9780199672738
Series Statement:
Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation
Note:
Rückent.: Crisis & ambition
,
1. Introduction: the third centuryChallenges -- Present approach -- 2. Traditional cemeteries and tombs -- House and terraced tombs -- Tombs of the social and financial elite -- Conclusions -- 3. Innovation and new designs -- Freestanding monuments -- Cruciform, apsidal, and circular tombs -- Conclusions -- 4. Underground tombs -- Family hypogea -- The Roman catacombs: a reassessment -- Christian hypogea -- Hypogea on imperial property -- Hypogea on private land -- Other collective hypogea -- Conclusions -- 5. Long-term use and re-use -- Long-term use of elite mausolea -- Non-elite tombs -- Legal re-use and change of ownership -- Re-use and usurpation -- Conclusions -- 6. Sarcophagi -- The deceased in formam deorum -- Mythological sarcophagi -- Entmythologisierung reconsidered -- Vita humana and status representation -- Happy days: Felicitas temporum -- Patrons -- Conclusions -- 7. Sarcophagi in context -- Tomb contexts with sarcophagi as primary feature -- Tomb contexts with sarcophagi as secondary feature -- Invisible sarcophagi -- Displaying and viewing sarcophagi -- 8. Interior decoration -- Mausoleum Z ad catacumbas -- Mausoleum M in Vaticano -- Hypogeum of the Nasonii -- Lost tomb at Porta Capena -- Tomb of the Aurelii -- Nuclei of the Priscilla Catacomb -- Biblical scenes -- Loculus marking and decoration -- Conclusions -- 9. Conclusions.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Rom
;
Grab
;
Bestattung
;
Brauch
;
Geschichte 200-300
;
Rom
;
Grab
;
Bestattung
;
Geschichte 201-300
Author information:
Borg, Barbara 1960-
