The cemetery of Noviomagus and the wealthy burials of the municipal elite
By: by Annelies Koster ; with contributions by Vera Bakker ... [et al.].
Contributors: Bakker, Vera
Series: Description of the Archaeological Collections in Museum Het Valkhof at Nijmegen -- 14
Publisher: Museum Het Valkhof
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Nijmegen
Language: eng
Translated from: dut
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9789068291032
Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies; Ancient Funeral rites and ceremonies; Batavi (Germanic people); Funeral customs and rites; Excavations (Archaeology); Cemeteries; Rich people; Death; Antiquities; Museum Het Valkhof (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Work titles: Grafveld van Noviomagus en de rijke graven van de stedelijke elite
Description: During excavations in the cemetery of the town of Noviomagus in Nijmegen-west archaeologists of the Radboud University of Nijmegen discovered the remains of a series of monumental burial complexes comprising walled enclosures and funerary monuments, and associated rich burials dating from the end of the 1st century AD. The aim of this publication is to establish whether these burials show influences from the Roman world and have cultural and religious connections with the Mediterranean, or whether they reflect indigenous traditions. Closely linked to this are questions concerning the status and ethnic background of the buried persons, for which the burial ritual, funerary customs and grave goods may provide clues. The high economic and social status of this group and its cultural and political alliance with Rome and the imperial family are evident from the monumental burial complexes and certain grave goods.
Notes: Translation of the author's doctoral dissertation at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-322).
Table of contents: title: The Noviomagus settlement and the associated cemetery; title: The archaeological research in the cemetery of Noviomagus in the years 1981-1983; title: Catalogue of the burials; title: The finds (typological and chronological analysis): pottery ; glass ; metal ; amber ; rock crystal ; organic material ; stone; title: The physical-anthropological analysis of the skeletal remains from the cremation and inhumation burials / Liesbeth Smits; title: Development and phases of the Noviomagus cemetery; title: The monumental burial complexes; title: The burial ritural and the meaning of the grave goods; title: The status and ethnicity of the deceased.