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XXXIII. Account of some sepulchral Antiquities discovered at Lincoln. By John Pownall, Esq. F.A.S.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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The drawings which accompany this exhibit an antient sepulture discovered and dug up about three or four feet below the surface of an open field half a mile due east of the east gate of the antient Lindum.

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Archaeologia , Volume 10 , 1789 , pp. 345 - 349
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1789

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page 345 note [a] See Fig. 1 and 2, Pl. XXXIII.

page 346 note [b] See Archæologia, vol. V. p. 243. line 22—27.

page 348 note [c] See Plate XXXIII.

page 349 note [d] At circa Asson Troadis lapis nascitur, quo consumuntur omnia corpora. Sarcophagus vocatur. Pliny, N. H. Lib. II.

page 349 note [e] Dea, in cujus templo asservabantur sandapila et reliqua quæ ad ritum ceremoniasque efferendi funeris pertinebant.

Lazius, Commentarior. Reipub. Roman.

Pestilentia in agris, forisque et conciliabulis, et in urbe tanta erat, ut Libitina vix nunc sufficeret. Livy, Lib, IV. Ainsworth explains Libitina here of of a bier to carry the dead on.

Accesserunt tantis ex principe malis, probisq. quædam fortuita: pestilentia unius autumni, qua triginta funerum millia Libitinæ venerunt. Sueton. in Neron. Ainsworth explains Libitina here the weekly bill, a book in which was set down the money paid into the treasury at the death of any person, a custom as old as Servius Tullus.

Non omnis moriar magnaque pars mei vitabit Libitinam. Hor. Od. III. 30. 7. where and in Juvenal XII. 122, Libitina is put for death.

Erat porró Romæ porta Libitina, per quam cadavera ad Libitinam essere-bantur. Lazius ubi supra.

Superest ut etiam consuetudinem ejus populi (Romani) quam in cremando condendoque cinerem adhibebant oftendamus. Erat autem hujusmodi, quòd cadaver in pyra et pice cremabatur, atque cinis exinde in Ollas colligebatur atque Phialas, atque libamento in vitro vel phiala ex vino et lacte adjecto, &c. &c.