Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1883)
Yaggy, Levi W, Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis), b. 1844 · Alexandria, Va., W.P. Grant & co. · leaf 885
e danger of fire from burning funeral piles in theneighborhood of houses. It is not meant, however, that therewere no tombs within the city. Some appear to have been in-cluded by the gradual extension of the walls; others were estab-lished in those intervals when the law of the twelve tables… … AKTICliES FOUND IN A TOMB If the family were of sufficient consequence to have a patri-monial tomb the deceased was laid in it; if he had none such,and was wealthy, he usually constructed a tomb upon his prop-erty during life, or bought a piece of ground for the purpose.If possible the tomb was…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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