strigilated sarcophagus on a masonry base was added and later partly covered by another grave built immediately against its front. At the time the latest burial was added, only a tiny space inside the chamber [...] on Via Latina, built around 160 A.D. [7] In most cases, masonry bases for sarcophagi were added later though. An example can be found in the anteroom of the "Tomb of the Pancratii" on Via Latina [...] presents a well, an oven, and masonry benches for the participants to sit on, installations that were added to a pre-existing chamber tomb in the middle of the 2 nd century. [12] This tradition of

have been plans to revive the archaic celebration of the Feriae Latinae on the Alban Mount as an added honor (55.2.5). Drusus died in Germania in 9 B.C. before he could return to Italy to celebrate these

another “foreign” cult – the religion remained liminal in its acceptance among the Roman populace. Added to this was the continued defeat, beginning at Pompey’s victory, of the Jewish uprisings in Jerusalem;

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