A mass grave from the catacomb of Saints Peter and Marcellinus in Rome, second-third century AD

• Autores: Philippe Blanchard, Dominique Castex, Michäel Coquerelle, Raffaella Giuliani, Monica Ricciardi
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 81, Nº 314, 2007, págs. 989-998
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Investigations in a catacomb revealed an early mass grave, in which the bodies were bound tightly with plaster and textile in a type of mummification. Over 100 individuals, mostly young adults, including women, were stacked in rows apparently following a communal fatal incident, perhaps an epidemic. The presence of traces of gold, silver and probably amber with many of the bodies, and their burial in an imperial property suggests a group of some status being interred in the early years of the catacomb, at the end of the second century AD or beginning of the third.