The Necropolises

The city of the dead mirrors that of the living. The cultural, social and religious models of the city are replicated in the roads lined with tombs, the outlying cemeteries, the funerary monuments, the burial offerings and the food and drink consumed during the funeral ritual. Hispano-Roman necropolises are a heterogeneous microcosm of different burial, inhumation cremation rituals. A wide variety of individual, family and collective monuments were erected there whose forms reflects ancient cultural traditions or new customs. All were motivated by a design to create a separate space for the dead and perpetuate their memory through architecture, images and, for the first time, the written word.亡者之城与生者之城如出一辙。该城的文化、社会与宗教范式，在排布着墓葬的道路、城郊墓地、丧葬纪念物、随葬祭品以及丧葬仪式中食用的饮食物品中得到复刻。伊比利亚罗马时期墓地（Hispano-Roman necropolises）是涵盖不同丧葬、土葬与火葬仪式的异质性微观缩影。当地曾兴建大量个体、家族与集体性丧葬纪念物，其形制既体现了古老的文化传统，也融入了新兴习俗。所有这些纪念物的建造初衷，皆是为亡者打造专属空间，并通过建筑、图像，以及史上首次出现的文字来延续他们的记忆。