Ancient Roman sarcophagi

Ancient Roman sarcophagi were the often richly-carved sarcophagi used for inhumation of the dead by the ancient Romans. In Rome the use of sarcophagi had only a few precedents in the Republican era (when cremation was more widespread) and mainly spread from the early 2nd century, when cremation was abandoned in favour of burial as the majority burial practice.

1 History
- 1.1 1st 2nd centuries
- 1.2 Spread in the 2nd century
2 Bibliography
3 References

History

1st 2nd centuries

Spread in the 2nd century

Velletri

The Severi to the Tetrachs

The Tetrarchs to Constantine

Constantine

Bibliography

Memorials to the Roman Dead by S. Walker, (London, The British Museum Press, 1985)
(Italian) Becati G., L'arte dell'età classica, Firenze 1989 (VI edizione)
(Italian) Bianchi Bandinelli R., Roma. La fine dell'arte antica, Milano 1988 (IV edizione)
(Italian) Giuliano A., Il commercio dei sarcofagi attici, Roma 1962
(Italian) Matz F., see "Sarcofago" in Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale, vol. VII
(German) Robert C., Die Antiken Sarkophag-Reliefs, Berlin 1890-1919
(Italian) Testini P., Le catacombe e gli antichi cimiteri di Roma, Bari 1980
(Italian) Vaccaro Melucco A., "Sarcofagi romani di caccia al leone", in Studo Miscellanei 11 (A.A. 1963-1964)
(Italian) Valenti Zucchini G.-Bucci M., "I sarcofagi a figure e a carattere simbolico", in Corpus della scultura paleocristiana, bizantina e altomedievale di Ravenna, vol. II, Roma 1968