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.
Labels:
archaeology,
Ashes,
necropolis,
Perugia,
rome,
urns
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