Early and Late Roman Rural Cemetery at Nemesbod (Vas County, Hungary)
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781784910488
Description: The Roman Cemetery at Nemesbőd belonged to a settlement or a villa which was located on the territory of the Roman colony of Savaria (present day Szombathey, Hungary) in Pannonia. The book deals with thirty-seven graves, which consisted of mainly cremation but also of some inhumation burials. Detailed analysis of grave goods (bronze vessels, pottery, glass, personal accessories, lamps etc.) provides a study of burial customs and their evolution. In addition, specialist reports on human remains and animal bone as well as on epigraphic material are presented.