Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman (1867)
Westropp, Hodder M. (Hodder Michael), -1884 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 135
h, or empty tomb, was raised to him with the cere-monies regulated by law; these cenotaphs bore the same ornamentsas the sarcophagi and tombs. The place appointed for tombs wasgenerally by the side of roads ; and though they were not allowedto be constructed within the city, there was no… … tombs, forming an approach to the city gate, is one of the mostinteresting objects in that place: and lately it has been discovered i 114 HANDBOOK OF AIWHjEOLOGY. that the Via Appia, and the Via Latina have been lined with tombsclose to Rome. A number of these tombs, extending on the ViaAppia for…
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