Liverani, Paolo.

The Vatican necropoles : Rome's city of the dead / Paolo Liverani, Giandomenico Spinola ; with a contribution by Pietro Zander ; introduction by Francesco Buranelli ; [translated from the Italian by Saskia Stevens and Victoria Noel-Johnson]. - [Turnhout, Belgium] : Cittą del Vaticano : Brepols ; Libreria Editrice Vaticani, 2010. - 350 p. : col. ill., maps ; 34 cm.

Errata slip tipped in at p. 303.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 346) and index.

Introduction -- Topographic setting -- The rituals : anthropological and religious aspects -- The necropolis under St Peter's Basilica -- The Vatican necropolis on the Via Triumphalis -- The necropolis underneath St Peter's Basilica : conservation and restoration.


Translation of: Le necropoli Vaticane : la cittą dei morti di Roma

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Tombs--Vatican City.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Vatican City.


Vatican City--Antiquities, Roman.

DG795 / .L5713 2010