Tombs in and near Rome ; Sculpture among the Greeks and Romans, mythology in funereal sculpture, and early Christian sculpture (1877)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884, Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884. Sculpture among the Greeks and Romans, mythology in funereal sculpture, and early Christian sculpture · Oxford : J. Parker ; London : John Murray · leaf 76
in the short agger between the Ccelian and the Aventine,had been the boundary. This celebrated tomb is full of columbaria (or pigeon-holes) forthe cinerary urns, and it is commonly called a columbarium, but it isproperly a tomb full of columbaria, as the Roman tombs of thatperiod usually were. It… … « OFFICERS OF CAESARS HOUSEHOLD » The Tombs. Plate IL In this view one side of the tomb of the Officers of CaesarsHousehold is shewn with the staircase and the columbaria, manyof which are still occupied by the busts of the deceased personsburied there, and the cippi or the cinerary urns which…
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