Rome

• Funeral club

  social club set up to support the less wealthy members of roman society
• The wealthy funerals

  often elaborate and showed off status and power
• Middle class funerals

  If you had money, you could join a funeral club. When you died, the club payed for your expenses and members attended.
• The poor and slave funerals

  their corpses would be removed from the city and buried in unmarked communal graves
• Where was the body laid out in the prothesis?

  atrium
• For how long was the body laid out in the prothesis?

  8 days
• atrium

  the main room in a roman house where the family received guests and clients
• Stage 3

  funeral procession
• Pompa


  Roman funeral procession
• When did the pompa happen?

  on the 8th day
• Where did the pompa go from?

  the home to the public crematorium or private burial ground
• Order of procession

  1. slaves the man has liberated wear caps of freedom
  2. the open coffin with dead body carried by his slaves and freedmen
  3. relatives (sons with heads veiled, daughters with hair dishevelled)
• Imagines

  funeral masks
• Sarcophagi

  a coffin or container to hold the dead
• The main road where the dead was buried

  The Appian Way
• Necropolis

  a burial place in an ancient city