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Columbarium tombs and collective identity in Augustan Rome /
"Columbarium tombs are among the most recognizable forms of Roman architecture and also among the most enigmatic. The subterranean collective burial chambers have repeatedly sparked the imagination of modern commentators, but their origins and function remain obscure. Columbarium Tombs and Coll...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Columbarium tombs are among the most recognizable forms of Roman architecture and also among the most enigmatic. The subterranean collective burial chambers have repeatedly sparked the imagination of modern commentators, but their origins and function remain obscure. Columbarium Tombs and Collective Identity in Augustan Rome situates columbaria within the development of Roman funerary architecture and the historical context of the early Imperial period. Contrary to earlier scholarship that often interprets columbaria primarily as economic burial solutions, Dorian Borbonus shows that they defined a community of people who were buried and commemorated collectively. Many of the tomb occupants were slaves and freed slaves, for whom collective burial was one strategy of community building that counterbalanced their exclusion in Roman society. Columbarium tombs were thus sites of social interaction that provided their occupants with a group identity that, this book shows, was especially relevant during the social and cultural transformation of the Augustan era"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 294 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139870894 1139870890 9781139381680 1139381687 9781306498142 1306498147 1139698958 9781139698955 1139861972 9781139861977 1139860895 9781139860895 1139868748 9781139868747 1139863045 9781139863049 |