Bustum

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Bustum is mainly engaged in ancient Rome a cremation , where the dead man was above burned in an open pit or. The ashes were left on site and the pit was filled in. When excavating a grave, a bustum is usually relatively easy to recognize, as the walls of the grave pit are smeared with smoke or even slightly tiled.

The term bustum is the only original Latin term for the type of cremation grave that has come down to us from Roman times:

“Bustum ... proprie dicitur locus, in quo mortuus est combustus et sepultus ...; ubi vero combustus quis tantummodo, alibi vero est sepultus, is locus (from urendo) ustrina vocatur ... "

Bustum is specifically the place where the dead was cremated and buried ...; but where someone has only been burned but buried in another place, this place (derived from the process of burning) is called Ustrina . "

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literature

  • Tilmann Bechert: On the terminology of Roman provincial cremation graves. Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt , 10/1980, Verlag des Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseums , Mainz 1980, ISSN  0342-734X , p. 253ff.
  • Ulrich Brandl: Sweet things for eternity - an early bustum burial in the area of ​​the "Colonia Ulpia Traiana" / Xanten . In: Gabriele Isenberg, Heinz Günter Horn, Harald Koschik u. a. (Ed.): Location North Rhine-Westphalia. Millions of years of history . Zabern, Mainz 2000, ISBN 3-8053-2672-6 , pp. 267-268

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tilmann Bechert: The grave fields of fort and vicus . In: Ders .: The Romans in Asciburgium. Braun, Duisburg 1989, ISBN 3-87096-047-7 , (= Duisburger Forschungen, Vol. 36), p. 183.
  2. Sextus Pompeius Festus : De verborum significatu . 32, 7-11.