Chapter 2. Housing the Dead: The Tomb as House in Roman Italy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents xiii
3. Introduction 1
4. Archaeology and Artifacts
5. Chapter 1. An Overview of the Intellectual History of Catacomb Archaeology 11
6. Chapter 2. Housing the Dead: The Tomb as House in Roman Italy 39
7. Chapter 3. Commemorating the Dead in the Communal Cemeteries of Carthage 79
8. Ritual and Religious Rites
9. Chapter 4. Dining with the Dead: From the Mensa to the Altar in Christian Late Antiquity 107
10. Chapter 5. Sweet Spices in the Tomb: An Initial Study on the Use of Perfume in Jewish Burials 145
11. Patronal Relations and Changes in Burial Practices
12. Chapter 6. From Columbaria to Catacombs: Collective Burial in Pagan and Christian Rome 177
13. Chapter 7. Roman and Christian Burial Practices and the Patronage of Women 243
14. Envisioning Context and Meaning
15. Chapter 8. From Endymion in Roman Domus to Jonah in Christian Catacombs: From Houses of the Living to Houses for the Dead. Iconography and Religion in Transition 273
16. Chapter 9. Looking for Abercius: Reimagining Contexts of Interpretation of the “Earliest Christian Inscription” 303
17. Backmatter 337