Saturday, 20 January 2007

Urban Urns: cities of the dead



The ancient practice of depositing ashes in cinerary urns in the form of small buildings creates an evocative form of quasi-urbanism in archaeological museum displays, in the Montemartini in Rome and the Museo Archaeologico in Perugia. They constitute a type of model necropolis.

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