ROMAN SEPULCRAL INSCRIPTIONS.
Reading edition
LONDON: PRINTED BY WOODFALL AND KINDER, ANGEL COURT, SKINNER STREET.
ROMAN SEPULCRAL INSCRIPTIONS:
THEIR RELATION TO ARCHÆOLOGY, LANGUAGE, AND RELIGION.
DM SIMPLICIAE FLORENTINE ANIME INNOCENTISSIME QVE VIXIT MENSES DECEM FELICIVS SIMPLEX PATER FECIT LEC VI V
FROM A SARCOPHAGUS IN THE YORK MUSEUM.
BY JOHN KENRICK, M.A., F.S.A.
LONDON. JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE. YORK: R. SUNTER, STONEGATE; H. SOTHERAN, CONEY STREET. M.DCCC.LVIII.
This little work originated in two papers, read before the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. They were designed to direct the attention of the members to the monuments preserved in their own Museum, and at the same time to show how the labours of the antiquary connect themselves with the history of manners, institutions, and opinions. The subject, I believe, has not been specially treated of in this country before, and as the remains of antiquity are now studied with more enlarged views than in a former age, it may have an interest for a wider circle than that to which the original papers were addressed.
J. K.
CONTENTS.
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IMPORTANCE OF SEPULCRAL MONUMENTS AS MATERIALS OF HISTORY 1
GREEK SEPULCRAL INSCRIPTIONS 2
ROMAN INSCRIPTIONS IN BRITAIN, GAUL, SPAIN, AND AFRICA 3
ROMAN SEPULCRES EXTRAMURAL 5
THE USTRINUM 7
ADDRESSES TO TRAVELLERS 8
WARNINGS TO VIOLATORS 9
RIGHT OF INTERMENT 11
PROTESTS AGAINST ALIENATION BY HEIRS 12
APPENDAGES TO SEPULCRES 14
COMMEMORATIVE RITES 15
MENTION OF CAUSES OF DEATH 18
COMPLAINTS OF THE INEFFICACY OF MEDICINE 19
OLD FORMS OF LANGUAGE 20
APPROXIMATION OF LATIN TO ITALIAN 23
RECORD OF TRADES AND PROFESSIONS 24
THEATRICAL PERFORMERS 26
IMPLEMENTS REPRESENTED ON TOMBS 28
AVERAGE LENGTH OF LIFE 30
SIMPLICITY OF ROMAN LAPIDARY STYLE 32
TOPICS OF PRAISE 35
PARENTAL REGRETS 36
FILIAL AFFECTION 38
CONJUGAL AFFECTION 40
LAW OF DIVORCE 45
INSCRIPTIONS ON FAVOURITE ANIMALS 47
RELIGIOUS FAITH AND SENTIMENT 48
OF CONSOLATION 50
MORAL REFLEXIONS 51
BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY 52
EPICUREAN SENTIMENTS 54
DOUBTFUL HOPES 55
SUPERSTITION AND SCEPTICISM 56
THE OLD RELIGIONS OBSOLETE 57
WORSHIP OF STRANGE GODS 58
CONTRAST OF PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS 59
WORKS ON INSCRIPTIONS 60
FORGERIES 61
ROMAN BURIAL CLUBS 65