MONUMENTA COLUMBARIORUM INTEGRA REPERTA. ANALISI DI UN COMPLESSO MONUMENTALE PRESSO PORTA MAGGIORE

This article provides a reconstruction of a Roman funerary complex that was discovered near the Porta Maggiore in Rome at the end of the nineteenth century (1871), using excavation reports and drawings, archival photographs, topographical indications and epigraphic materials. This paper examines the inscriptions discovered inside these tombs, which have been published in the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL VI, 5961–6148), but attributed to the wrong funerary context. Thanks to two photographs taken by John Henry Parker in 1871, we can now ‘re-place’ these inscriptions in their original burial chamber. The objective of this study is to use this varied evidence to contribute to our understanding of the archaeological and topographical development of this area, through an analysis of the different periods in which this burial ground was utilized.