By Virginia L. Campbell
ISBN-10: 1138809195
ISBN-13: 9781138809192
This publication bargains a entire evaluation of the tombs of Pompeii and its rapid environs, analyzing the funerary tradition of the inhabitants, delving into the significance of social classification and self-representation, and constructing a huge figuring out of Pompeii’s funerary epigraphy and enterprise. The Pompeian corpus of proof has heretofore been studied in a piecemeal style, now not conducive to assessing traits and practices. the following, a holistic method of the funerary monuments makes it possible for the combination of information from 5 diversified necropoleis and research of higher accuracy and scope.
Author Virginia Campbell demonstrates that the funerary practices of Pompeii are, in many ways, special in to the inhabitants, relocating clear of the conventional method of burial in line with generalizations and reviews of typology. She exhibits that whereas a few developments in Roman burial tradition might be visible as common, every one inhabitants, time, and position constructs its personal method of commemoration and reveal. together with an in depth catalogue of tomb facts and photographs by no means ahead of assembled or released, this collective process unearths new insights into historical commemoration. The Tombs of Pompeii is the 1st English-language e-book on Pompeian funerary rituals. It’s additionally the 1st in any language to supply a whole survey of the tombs of Pompeii and the 1st to situate Pompeian adjustments inside of a much wider Roman burial context.
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