Roman Funerals Flashcards
What is the ability to perform funeral rites?
Iusta facere
What is the term for a burial society?
Collegium funeraticium / salutarium / iuvenum
What was the term for the members of a funeral collegium?
Cultores
Who was an honorary member of a society who had contributed toward the expense of undertaking?
Patronus
Which funeral had no ceremony and was for the death of small children?
Funus acerbum
Which funeral was for plebeians and had no public parade?
Funus plabeium
What was the 25-foot-deep grave pit on the Esquiline hill?
Puticulu
What were the boundary line for the city of Rome which within no one could be buried?
Pomerium
What was a park of puticuli?
Horti Maesenatis
What was the term for an empty tomb?
Cenotaphium
What room was enclosed in a building and was for burying the dead?
Sepulcrum
What was a family tomb that had many dead inside?
Columbarium
who were the trustees that erected the columbarium?
Curatores
What were the shares of family for paying for a columbarium/
Sortes viriles
What was the term for rows of niches?
Gradus
What was the term for columns of niches?
Ordines
What was the marble above the nich with the name of the dead?
Titulus
A sarcophagus on a podium for dead bodies?
Sarcophagus
What was the term for a garden tomb?
Cepotaphium
What was the term for a storehouse or granary?
Horreum
What was the term for a trellises?
Vineolae
What was the term for a terrace?
Solarium
What was the term for thick shrubbery?
Harundinetum
What a tomb with pillars made to look like a temple?
Aedicula
What was a grave with burnt bodies?
Bustum
What was the pile of wood used to burn bodies?
Rogus
What was used to extinguish the fire?
wine or water?
What were the places for burning bodies and where the ashes were collected?
Ustrina
What was the term for the urn or jar?
Olla
What was the jar used for bones?
Ossuarium
What was the formal oration given by the oldest son to the deceased?
Conclamatio
What couch were the insignia worn by the deceased put on?
Lectus funebris
Who were the undertakers?
Designator / Libitinarius
What was said before a funeral procession by a public crier?
“Ollus Quiris leto datus. Exsequias, quibus est commodum, ire iam tempus est. Ollus ex aedibus effertur.”
What was taken from the alae to be worn by the actors?
Imagines
What was a funeral oration given in the forum by a public authority?
Laudatio
What was the ceremonial bone that was buried if the rest of the body was cremated?
Os resectum
What was the funeral feast that was held after the sacrafice of a pig?
Silicernium
What was the feast that was held for nine days of mourning?
Cena novendialis
What was the term for the sacrafice at the funeral?
Sacrificium novendialis
What were the days of obligation, Feb. 13-21?
Parentalia / Dies parentales
What was the festival of the deas, Feb. 21?
Feralia
What happend at the end of march?
The Violaria, relatives laid violets on the graves
What happend at the end of May?
The Rosaria, relatives laid roses on the grave
