الطقوس الجنائزية خلال الفترة الرومانية بمدينة كويكول (جميلة حاليا)‎

الملخص EN

Death has always been fascinating for both the modern and ancient peoples, so they tried to explain what death is, what accompanied it and what happen after it.

in the ancient time, a consensus about the death emerged: death is a process making a parson moving from a stage of movement and existence to a state of stillness.

that stage is followed by resurrection, judgment and reward or punishment.

the almost complete perception of death and the accompanying funeral rituals, we got from the ancients is roman.

so, how did the romans view the death? what are the rituals accompanying this phenomenon? what is the most important knowledge delivered by the funerary inscriptions? it is known that once a roman person dies, it is announced by the ritual of placing a cypress trunk and the crying and wailings of the relative women.

after that, the corps is washed, scented and shrouded according to the social and economic position of the dead person.

if the dead is a noble, a procession take him to the public square (forum) for a memorial and from there he is buried or burned and his memory is commemorated through feasts or funerary texts which usually included the name of the deceased, how many he lived, perhaps his administrative functions and the name of the person who provided the text and prays.

these rituals where not meaningless acts but rather an expression of strong social and family ties.

this is the filling we had by writing this theoretical article which studies the ritual through the inscriptions and funerary texts from the city of Cuicul.