Puticuli were open pits used as mass graves for the poor in ancient Rome. According to Varro, a Roman scholar, puticuli were located outside of towns...
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section as the "strangers" burial ground. Washington Square (Philadelphia) Puticuli, an ancient Roman mass grave for poor people and waste. The Green Bay,...
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waste and dead bodies of the poor were dumped into mass graves called puticuli. In Paris, the practice of mass burial, and in particular, the condition...
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The Esquiline contained squared pits, named in the 1st century BC as puticuli ("little pits"), possible remnants of ancient stone-quarrying that sometimes...
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afford the expenses. The poorest people were inhumed in mass graves called puticuli. The rest of the poor were buried in modest, small graves or were cremated...
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Esquiline outside of the Servian Walls was a cemetery with open pits (puticuli) for the poor. The Esquiline gate was where criminals were executed and...
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