1. Introduction: the third century -- Challenges -- Present approach -- 2. Traditional cemeteries and tombs -- House and terraced tombs -- Tombs of the social and financial elite -- Conclusions -- 3. Innovation and new designs -- Freestanding monuments -- Cruciform, apsidal, and circular tombs -- Conclusions -- 4. Underground tombs -- Family hypogea -- The Roman catacombs: a reassessment -- Christian hypogea -- Hypogea on imperial property -- Hypogea on private land -- Other collective hypogea -- Conclusions -- 5. Long-term use and re-use -- Long-term use of elite mausolea -- Non-elite tombs -- Legal re-use and change of ownership -- Re-use and usurpation -- Conclusions -- 6. Sarcophagi -- The deceased in formam deorum -- Mythological sarcophagi -- Entmythologisierung reconsidered -- Vita humana and status representation -- Happy days: Felicitas temporum -- Patrons -- Conclusions -- 7. Sarcophagi in context -- Tomb contexts with sarcophagi as primary feature -- Tomb contexts with sarcophagi as secondary feature -- Invisible sarcophagi -- Displaying and viewing sarcophagi -- 8. Interior decoration -- Mausoleum Z ad catacumbas -- Mausoleum M in Vaticano -- Hypogeum of the Nasonii -- Lost tomb at Porta Capena -- Tomb of the Aurelii -- Nuclei of the Priscilla Catacomb -- Biblical scenes -- Loculus marking and decoration -- Conclusions -- 9. Conclusions.
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Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation
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