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By Virginia L. Campbell

This ebook bargains a accomplished evaluate of the tombs of Pompeii and its instant environs, studying the funerary tradition of the inhabitants, delving into the significance of social classification and self-representation, and constructing a wide knowing of Pompeii’s funerary epigraphy and enterprise. The Pompeian corpus of facts has heretofore been studied in a piecemeal model, no longer conducive to assessing tendencies and practices. right here, a holistic method of the funerary monuments allows the combination of information from 5 diverse necropoleis and research of higher accuracy and scope.



Author Virginia Campbell demonstrates that the funerary practices of Pompeii are, in many ways, particular in to the inhabitants, relocating clear of the normal method of burial in keeping with generalizations and reviews of typology. She exhibits that whereas a few tendencies in Roman burial tradition will be obvious as common, each one inhabitants, time, and position constructs its personal method of commemoration and exhibit. together with an intensive catalogue of tomb facts and photographs by no means prior to assembled or released, this collective process finds new insights into old commemoration. The Tombs of Pompeii is the 1st English-language publication on Pompeian funerary rituals. It’s additionally the 1st in any language to supply an entire survey of the tombs of Pompeii and the 1st to situate Pompeian transformations inside a much wider Roman burial context.

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