The Vatican necropoles
Subtitle: Rome's city of the dead
By: 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]
Contributors: Spinola, Giandomenico; Zander, Pietro
Publisher: Brepols; Libreria Editrice Vaticani
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Turnhout, Belgium]; Città del Vaticano
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9782503535784
Subjects: Tombs; Excavations (Archaeology); Roman Antiquities
Work titles: Necropoli Vaticane
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 346) and index.

Translation of: Le necropoli Vaticane : la città dei morti di Roma
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Topographic setting; title: The rituals : anthropological and religious aspects; title: The necropolis under St Peter's Basilica; title: The Vatican necropolis on the Via Triumphalis; title: The necropolis underneath St Peter's Basilica : conservation and restoration.