Gräberlose toten, totenlose Gräber. Einige Betrachtungen zur Frage der Kenotaphen aus den Provinzkialrömischen Gräberfelder aus Dakien
Journal Title: Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis - Year 2007, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
The cenotaph is a tomb without a dead in it, meaning it is a fitting out (rarely isolated) within a cemetery that has all the features of a tomb but no human bones. However, we are not always dealing with a real dead and a real death. Sometimes, one can also set up cenotaphs when having the symbolic burial of a member of the community that, as a result of an initiation, miraculous save from a deadly peril or some other event has gained a new identity or become a new man. It can also be meant to consecrate the area the necropolis is occupying. The instances that do not fall in the category of cenotaphs are the partial burials (burials of body parts, usually the skull), the total or partial re-inhumations, the human bones found in non-funerary contexts or the cremation tombs containing a symbolic amount of cremation remains, to the extent that they are from the cremation of a human body
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Alexandru Sonoc
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