Customs: Roman Funerals

Question 1

funus acerbum

Answer 1

“bitter funeral”; a funeral for the death of a small child

Question 2

puticuli

Answer 2

mass grave pits on the Esquiline hill

Question 3

pomerium

Answer 3

boundary line of a city within which no one could be buried

Question 4

cenotaphium

Answer 4

empty tomb

Question 5

sepulchrum

Answer 5

room inclosed in a building for burying the dead

Question 6

columbarium

Answer 6

family tomb

Question 7

rogus/bustum

Answer 7

funeral pyre

Question 8

ustrina

Answer 8

places for burning bodies/where ashes were collected and dried

Question 9

olla

Answer 9

urn/jar

Question 10

conclamatio

Answer 10

oration given by the oldest son of the deceased

Question 11

lectus funebris

Answer 11

death bed

Question 12

designator

Answer 12

undertaker (like libitinarius)

Question 13

libitinarius

Answer 13

undertaker (like designator)

Question 14

neniae

Answer 14

funeral songs/poems

Question 15

praeficiae

Answer 15

hired mourners

Question 16

cena novendialis

Answer 16

feast held after nine days of mourning

Question 17

What festival of the dead was on February 21st?

Answer 17

Feralia

Question 18

What nine day festival was held from February 13-21 to honor ancestors?

Answer 18

Parentalia