Death and Burial in the Roman World

N.Y.: Cornell University Press, Ithaca, [1971]. 336 pages illustrations, plans 23 cm. No jacket; remainder stamp to bottom edge; foxing to exterior edges. Overall Near fine(-) to very good(+) thus. Tight and clean. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780801405938, 0801405939

Personal bookplate of one Richard Jospeh Hoffman "Ranging throughout the Roman world - from Rome to Pompeii, from Britain to Jerusalem - the author examines funeral practices from a wide variety of perspectives. Toynbee first examines Roman beliefs about death and the afterlife, revealing that few Romans believed in the Elysian Fields of poetic invention. Also examined are the rituals associated with burial and mourning, descriptions of the layout and finances of cemeteries, the tomb types of both the rich and the poor, the types of grave markers and monuments, and tomb furnishings."--Publisher. // Contents: Etruscan antecedents. Roman beliefs about the afterlife, cremation and inhumation. Funerary rites and the cult of the dead. The layout of cemeteries, and ownership of tombs, walled cemeteries. Funeray gardens. Selected types of tombs I. Selected types of tombs II. Gravestones and tomb furniture.