‘Landscapes of Life’ and ‘Landscapes of Death’: The Contribution of
                        Funerary Evidence to the Understanding of the Perception and Organisation of
                        Roman Rural Landscapes in Northern Italy

Botturi, Chiara

doi:10.16995/trac2015_43_56

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“…These tomb‐streets, most common around the cities of central Italy, formed public, highly visual focal points for commemoration. Less attention has been paid to burial placement in the countryside, but existing work suggests that proximity to roads and the resulting high visibility was also a desirable choice for some Roman people living in rural areas (Francisci 2011; 2014; Botturi 2016; 2017). Other scholars have highlighted the possibility that some tombs were intended to be seen from waterways (Hope 2007, 149; Borg 2013, 33).…”

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Experiencing gloomy Dis: Tombs, tunnels and the phenomenology of the Roman Underworld in the Phlegraean Fields

Penn

2023

Oxford J Archaeology

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Recent work in landscape archaeology has emphasized the importance of considering the experience of moving through landscapes and examining the place of burials within wider landscape contexts. This work recognizes that burial placement was often intended to create and curate experiences and meaning. While burials near roads and waterways have been discussed at length, burials near tunnels, which are an important feature of the road network of Roman central Italy, have not yet featured in discussions of the experience of Roman landscapes or the visibility of graves. This article explores these twin themes in the Phlegraean Fields west of Naples, where burials appear next to the entrances of two monumental tunnels. This placement appears to make an experiential play on the perceptions of the descent into the Underworld as described in Classical literature. Recent research in archaeology has emphasized the importance of sensory experiences in past societies and how these sensory experiences impacted perceptions of landscape. Studying past landscapes is, of course, challenging because of the incompleteness of the data, but in-depth case studies can provide a means to think about how landscapes were experienced in

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Experiencing gloomy Dis: Tombs, tunnels and the phenomenology of the Roman Underworld in the Phlegraean Fields

Penn

2023

Oxford J Archaeology

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‘Landscapes of Life’ and ‘Landscapes of Death’: The Contribution of Funerary Evidence to the Understanding of the Perception and Organisation of Roman Rural Landscapes in Northern Italy

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Experiencing gloomy Dis: Tombs, tunnels and the phenomenology of the Roman Underworld in the Phlegraean Fields

Experiencing gloomy Dis: Tombs, tunnels and the phenomenology of the Roman Underworld in the Phlegraean Fields

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