Roman: Funerary Art

The Topic:

There are a number of common iconographies and motifs in Roman funerary art. The bibliography below explores a variety of them, concentrating on the very prevalent garland motif. However, the bibliography provides works that introduce the various aspects of Roman funerary art if you wish to pursue another area of funerary iconography or decoration.

Bibliography from 2007, so it will require some updating to include publications in the past few years

A. Boëthius, (1970), Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture², Middlesex.

L. Bonfante, (ed) (1986 ) Etruscan Life and Afterlife, Warminster.

B. Candida, (1979 ), Altari e Cippi nel Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.

F. Cumont, (1923), After Life in Roman Paganism, Oxford.

G. Davies, (2003) “Roman Funerary Symbolism in the early Empire”, in J.B. Wilkins and E. Herring (eds), Inhabiting Symbols: Symbol and Image in the Ancient Mediterrenean, London.

(2007) “Idem ego sum discumbens, ut me videtis: inscription and image on Roman ash chests” in Z. Newby and R. Leader-Newby (eds), Art and Inscriptions in the Roman World, Cambridge, 38- 59.

G. Dennis (1883), Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria (vol. 1 and 2), London

Appendices of 1848 ed. available online at: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/_Periods/Roman/Archaic/Etruscan/_Texts/DENETR*/18B.html. Last accessed 04/12/07

L.G. Elridge, (1918) “A Third Century Etruscan Tomb”, AJA, 251-294.

P.M. Fraser, (1977), Rhodian Funerary Monuments, Oxford.

N. Hannestadt (1988), Roman Art and Imperial Policy, Aarhus.

Hencken, (1968) Tarquinia and Etruscan Origins, London.

H. Herdejürgen, (1996) Stadtrömische und Italische Girlandensarkophage: fasikel 1, Berlin.

S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth, (eds), (1999), The Oxford Classical Dictionary, Oxford.

D. E. E. Kleiner, (1992), Roman Sculpture, London.

(2005), Cleopatra and Rome, London.

V. Kockel, (1983), Die Grabbauten vor dem Herkulaner Tor in Pompeji, Mainz

J. Oakley, (2004), Picturing Death in Classical Athens, Cambridge.

C. Reusser, (2002), Vasen für Etrurien. Verbreitung und Funktionen attischer Keramik im Etrurien des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr, Zurich, 208 - 272.

C. Scheffer, (1987) Roman Cinerary Urns in Stockholm Collections, Stockholm.

F. Sinn, (1987), Stadtrömische Marmorurnen, Mainz.

S. Steingräber (ed), (1985) Etruscan Painting, NY.

J.M.C. Toynbee, (1971/1996) Death and Burial in the Roman world, London and Baltimore, 33-39.

S. Walker, (1988) “Aspects of Roman Funerary Art” in J. Huskinson et.al.(ed) Image and Mystery in the Roman World (Papers given in memory of Jocelyn Toynbee), Gloucester,

G.B. Waywell, (1982), “A Roman Grave Altar Rediscovered”, AJA, 238-242.

P. Zanker (1990), The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus, MI. (Translated by Alan Shapiro).

P. Zanker, (1988), “Augustan Political Symbolism in the Private Sphere”, J. Huskinson et.al.(ed) Image and Mystery in the Roman World (Papers given in memory of Jocelyn Toynbee), Gloucester, 1-21.

BBC news article, (2006) Thursday 29^th June, Ancient Garland in Egyptian Tomb, last accessed on the 6^th of December 2007: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5127918.stm