Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) 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