Villa Doria Pamphili, Rome: columbaria and ancient tombs

Villa Doria Pamphili, Rome

Some wall remains of tombs dating from the late Republican era to the mid-2nd century A.D. are preserved, with particular reference to the construction type called “columbarium” related to the practice of cremation.

Villa Doria Pamphili, Roma
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Specifically, the remains of a boundary wall of a monument made of squared tuff and peperino blocks with the depiction of a false door, the so-called Grande Colombario (from which the paintings preserved at the National Roman Museum come) and the Piccolo Colombario, both discovered in the 1820s-1830s by excavations carried out by the Doria Pamphilj family, are preserved.

A few meters away from these, another columbarium with abundant and good-quality pictorial remains attributable to the Augustan age was discovered in 1984.

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