 | Suffolk Institute of Archaeology - Archaeology - 1774 - 564 pages
...Empire burnt their dead, almost universally. The other Tumuli at Rougham afforded examples of this custom, with the usual accompaniments of those vessels...of light and life, in a resurrection of the flesh. Some of the occupiers of this villa may have returned to Italy and died there — and perhaps a few... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1844 - 792 pages
...those vessels in which the offerings to the manes of the deceased had been conveyed to the !>i'«! fin, and deposited with the burning lamp, to cheer them...of light and life, in a resurrection of the flesh. Some of the occupiers of this villa may have returned to Italy and died there — and perhaps a few... | |
 | English essays - 1844 - 742 pages
...Empire burnt their dead, almost universally. The other tumuli at Rougham afforded examples of this custom, with the usual accompaniments of those vessels...the manes of the deceased had been conveyed to the Imstiim, and deposited with the burning lamp, to cheer them on their way " to that bourne from whence... | |
 | Architecture - 1845 - 482 pages
...empire burnt their dead, almost universally. The other tumuli at Rougham afforded examples of this custom, with the usual accompaniments of those vessels...of light and life, in a resurrection of the flesh. Some of the occupiers of this villa may have returned to Italy and died there — and perhaps a few... | |
 | 1845 - 494 pages
...empire burnt their dead, almost universally. The other tumuli at Rougham afforded examples of this custom, with the usual accompaniments of those vessels...supposed) no traveller was ever to return, to the enj oyment of light and life, in a resurrection of the flesh. Some of the occupiers of this villa may... | |
 | Leonard Blomefield - 1862 - 332 pages
...little estimation in the eyes of his fellow men, would have been buried in the style of this Roman—in a leaden coffin, within a solidly-built vault, and...burning lamp, to cheer them on their way 'to that bourne frotn whence (as they supposed) no traveller was ever to return' to the enjoyment of light and life,... | |
 | Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle - 1884 - 394 pages
...Empire burnt their dead, almost universally. The other Tumuli at Rougham afforded examples of this custom, with the usual accompaniments of those vessels...of light and life, in a resurrection of the flesh. Some of the occupiers of this villa may have returned to Italy and died there — and perhaps a few... | |
 | 1901 - 820 pages
...afforded examples of this custom, with the usual accompaniments of these vessels, in which the offering to the manes of the deceased had been conveyed to the Bustum — ie the place where burnt bodies were deposited. Some of the occupiers of this villa may have returned... | |
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... legions were finally recalled from enervated Britain, in the year of our Lord 426. I argue thus in favour of the late period at which this Tumulus was erected. The Romans in the earlier periods of the Empire burnt their dead, almost universally. The... 