Roman Funerals

Question 1

What is the ability to perform funeral rites?

Answer 1

Iusta facere

Question 2

What is the term for a burial society?

Answer 2

Collegium funeraticium / salutarium / iuvenum

Question 3

What was the term for the members of a funeral collegium?

Answer 3

Cultores

Question 4

Who was an honorary member of a society who had contributed toward the expense of undertaking?

Answer 4

Patronus

Question 5

Which funeral had no ceremony and was for the death of small children?

Answer 5

Funus acerbum

Question 6

Which funeral was for plebeians and had no public parade?

Answer 6

Funus plabeium

Question 7

What was the 25-foot-deep grave pit on the Esquiline hill?

Answer 7

Puticulu

Question 8

What were the boundary line for the city of Rome which within no one could be buried?

Answer 8

Pomerium

Question 9

What was a park of puticuli?

Answer 9

Horti Maesenatis

Question 10

What was the term for an empty tomb?

Answer 10

Cenotaphium

Question 11

What room was enclosed in a building and was for burying the dead?

Answer 11

Sepulcrum

Question 12

What was a family tomb that had many dead inside?

Answer 12

Columbarium

Question 13

who were the trustees that erected the columbarium?

Answer 13

Curatores

Question 14

What were the shares of family for paying for a columbarium/

Answer 14

Sortes viriles

Question 15

What was the term for rows of niches?

Answer 15

Gradus

Question 16

What was the term for columns of niches?

Answer 16

Ordines

Question 17

What was the marble above the nich with the name of the dead?

Answer 17

Titulus

Question 18

A sarcophagus on a podium for dead bodies?

Answer 18

Sarcophagus

Question 19

What was the term for a garden tomb?

Answer 19

Cepotaphium

Question 20

What was the term for a storehouse or granary?

Answer 20

Horreum

Question 21

What was the term for a trellises?

Answer 21

Vineolae

Question 22

What was the term for a terrace?

Answer 22

Solarium

Question 23

What was the term for thick shrubbery?

Answer 23

Harundinetum

Question 24

What a tomb with pillars made to look like a temple?

Answer 24

Aedicula

Question 25

What was a grave with burnt bodies?

Answer 25

Bustum

Question 26

What was the pile of wood used to burn bodies?

Answer 26

Rogus

Question 27

What was used to extinguish the fire?

Answer 27

wine or water?

Question 28

What were the places for burning bodies and where the ashes were collected?

Answer 28

Ustrina

Question 29

What was the term for the urn or jar?

Answer 29

Olla

Question 30

What was the jar used for bones?

Answer 30

Ossuarium

Question 31

What was the formal oration given by the oldest son to the deceased?

Answer 31

Conclamatio

Question 32

What couch were the insignia worn by the deceased put on?

Answer 32

Lectus funebris

Question 33

Who were the undertakers?

Answer 33

Designator / Libitinarius

Question 34

What was said before a funeral procession by a public crier?

Answer 34

“Ollus Quiris leto datus. Exsequias, quibus est commodum, ire iam tempus est. Ollus ex aedibus effertur.”

Question 35

What was taken from the alae to be worn by the actors?

Answer 35

Imagines

Question 36

What was a funeral oration given in the forum by a public authority?

Answer 36

Laudatio

Question 37

What was the ceremonial bone that was buried if the rest of the body was cremated?

Answer 37

Os resectum

Question 38

What was the funeral feast that was held after the sacrafice of a pig?

Answer 38

Silicernium

Question 39

What was the feast that was held for nine days of mourning?

Answer 39

Cena novendialis

Question 40

What was the term for the sacrafice at the funeral?

Answer 40

Sacrificium novendialis

Question 41

What were the days of obligation, Feb. 13-21?

Answer 41

Parentalia / Dies parentales

Question 42

What was the festival of the deas, Feb. 21?

Answer 42

Feralia

Question 43

What happend at the end of march?

Answer 43

The Violaria, relatives laid violets on the graves

Question 44

What happend at the end of May?

Answer 44

The Rosaria, relatives laid roses on the grave