Tussen leven en dood. Familiebegravingen in Romeins (eerste tot vijfde eeuw na Christus) Sagalassos, Zuidwest-Turkije

Third parties inevitably play an important role in funerary practices. After all, a dead person cannot bury himself, but is interred by his kin, friends, or other members of society. In the Roman world, there is a lot of evidence for family burials, but also of burial by associations – collegia – and professional undertakers – libitinarii. For Roman Sagalassos (Pisidia, Southwest Turkey, first to fifth century AD), there are several indications that the majority of burials were a family affair. This paper will summarize the evidence for these kinship practices and summarily explore their development throughout the Roman Imperial period. Apart from the archaeological context, grave goods, grave architecture and epigraphy, this study will use aDNA-analyses and the physical anthropological study of the skeletal material to obtain a better understanding of how the families of Roman Sagalassos buried their dead.

Publication year:2020

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