Suggrundaria - Ein Zeichen sozialer Distinktion in den Nekropolen des Suburbiums von Rom?
| Autor: | Baas, Philipp |
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| Zdroj: | Hephaistos; 2013, Vol. 30, p135-147, 13p |
| Abstrakt: | The article focuses on children's graves in the suburbium of Rome ranging from the 1 cent. BC to the 3 cent. AD. Based on ancient written sources and anthropological data from seven graveyards around Rome the general attitude of the Roman society towards early died children is analyzed. The idea - taken from written sources - of not mourning about the early death of children and not burying them cannot be proven by the anthropological record. The combined analysis of the archaeological records of the necropoleis, the sarcophagi decorations and the written sources shows that the habit of burying children up to a certain age is a distinctive feature of graveyards with publicly available grave spots. On the contrary, on private graveyards early died children were not buried. Therefore the ideal of not mourning and burying has to be considered as an elite ideal only. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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