Élite burial practices and processes of urbanization at Gabii : the non-adult tombs from area D of the Gabii project excavations / edited by Marcello Mogetta ; with contributions by Sheira Cohen [and 11 others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mogetta, Marcello, editor.

Cohen, Sheira, contributor.

Series:

Journal of Roman archaeology. Supplementary series ; no. 108.

Journal of Roman archaeology. Supplementary series ; number 108

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gabii (Extinct city).

Italy--Antiquities.

Italy.

Antiquities.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Italy--Gabii (Extinct city).

Excavations (Archaeology).

Italy--Gabii (Extinct city).

Physical Description:

172 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plan ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Portsmouth, Rhode Island : Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2020.

Summary:

This article discusses the recent discovery of a late archaic burial ground at the site of ancient Gabii. Some time during the late 6th and 5th centuries BC, seven inhumation burials were placed in one of three rock-cut tombs that were constructed along the perimeter of a preexisting complex in a long-inhabited sector of the archaic city. The tombs consist of deep trenches cut into the bedrock tuff with loculi carved on one or more sides; one of the tombs features a monolithic tuff sarcophagus. Between them, the tombs contain the burials of six adults and one adolescent, but they are largely devoid of grave goods. On the basis of their considerable size and intramural location, the burials may have belonged to relatively high status individuals. The emergence of the cemetery within the limits of the city may point to a period of social and political change between the Archaic and Republican periods.

Contents:

Introduction / M. Mogetta

History of settlement in Area D: topography, architecture and stratigraphy / J. M. Evans

Non-adult burials from Gabii: the osteological evidence / K. Killgrove

The tombs and their finds / S. Cohen

Offerings and rituals at the grave: insights from the macro- and micro-organic evidence / L. Motta, D. Fico, F. Alhaique and G. De Benedetto

The regional setting: non-adult burials from contemporary settlements in Latium Vetus / M. D'Acri and M. Mogetta

Infant burials as mediators of House identity at Iron Age Gabii / S. Cohen and M. Naglak

Conclusions / N. Terrenato

Afterword / Anna De Santis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0999458620

9780999458624

OCLC:

1143498457