ROMAN SEPULCRAL INSCRIPTIONS.
LONDON: PRINTED BY WOODFALL AND KINDER,
ANGEL COURT, SKINNER STREET.
ROMAN
SEPULCRAL INSCRIPTIONS:
THEIR RELATION TO
ARCHÆOLOGY, LANGUAGE, AND RELIGION.
DM SIMPLICIAE FLORENTINE
ANIME INNOCENTISSIME
QVE VIXIT MENSES DECEM
FELICIVS SIMPLEX PATER FECIT
LEC VI V
FROM A SARCOPHAGUS IN THE YORK MUSEUM.
BY
JOHN KENRICK, M.A., F.S.A.
LONDON.
JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE.
YORK:
R. SUNTER, STONEGATE; H. SOTHERAN, CONEY STREET.
M.DCCC.LVIII.
This little work originated in two papers, read before the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. They were designed to direct the attention of the members to the monuments preserved in their own Museum, and at the same time to show how the labours of the antiquary connect themselves with the history of manners, institutions, and opinions. The subject, I believe, has not been specially treated of in this country before, and as the remains of antiquity are now studied with more enlarged views than in a former age, it may have an interest for a wider circle than that to which the original papers were addressed.
J. K.
CONTENTS.
| | PAGE |
| IMPORTANCE OF SEPULCRAL MONUMENTS AS MATERIALS OF HISTORY | 1 |
| GREEK SEPULCRAL INSCRIPTIONS | 2 |
| ROMAN INSCRIPTIONS IN BRITAIN, GAUL, SPAIN, AND AFRICA | 3 |
| ROMAN SEPULCRES EXTRAMURAL | 5 |
| THE USTRINUM | 7 |
| ADDRESSES TO TRAVELLERS | 8 |
| WARNINGS TO VIOLATORS | 9 |
| RIGHT OF INTERMENT | 11 |
| PROTESTS AGAINST ALIENATION BY HEIRS | 12 |
| APPENDAGES TO SEPULCRES | 14 |
| COMMEMORATIVE RITES | 15 |
| MENTION OF CAUSES OF DEATH | 18 |
| COMPLAINTS OF THE INEFFICACY OF MEDICINE | 19 |
| OLD FORMS OF LANGUAGE | 20 |
| APPROXIMATION OF LATIN TO ITALIAN | 23 |
| RECORD OF TRADES AND PROFESSIONS | 24 |
| THEATRICAL PERFORMERS | 26 |
| IMPLEMENTS REPRESENTED ON TOMBS | 28 |
| AVERAGE LENGTH OF LIFE | 30 |
| SIMPLICITY OF ROMAN LAPIDARY STYLE | 32 |
| TOPICS OF PRAISE | 35 |
| PARENTAL REGRETS | 36 |
| FILIAL AFFECTION | 38 |
| CONJUGAL AFFECTION | 40 |
| LAW OF DIVORCE | 45 |
| INSCRIPTIONS ON FAVOURITE ANIMALS | 47 |
| RELIGIOUS FAITH AND SENTIMENT | 48 |
| OF CONSOLATION | 50 |
| MORAL REFLEXIONS | 51 |
| BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY | 52 |
| EPICUREAN SENTIMENTS | 54 |
| DOUBTFUL HOPES | 55 |
| SUPERSTITION AND SCEPTICISM | 56 |
| THE OLD RELIGIONS OBSOLETE | 57 |
| WORSHIP OF STRANGE GODS | 58 |
| CONTRAST OF PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN MONUMENTS | 59 |
| WORKS ON INSCRIPTIONS | 60 |
| FORGERIES | 61 |
| ROMAN BURIAL CLUBS | 65 |
