The Economy of Death: New Research on Collective Burial S...
Zimmermann, Norbert / Fröhlich, Thomas
The contributions of this volume study economic aspects of Roman burial
architectures for extended numbers of burials, such as columbaria, large hypogea, or
catacombs, and try to form a picture of their owners and users. They discuss how far
economic reasons played a leading role in the invention, the development and the use
of these big burial monuments in Rome and how these buildings fulfilled the
religious and social needs of their use...