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...

section as the "strangers" burial ground. Washington Square (Philadelphia) Puticuli, an ancient Roman mass grave for poor people and waste. The Green Bay,...

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...

The Esquiline contained squared pits, named in the 1st century BC as puticuli ("little pits"), possible remnants of ancient stone-quarrying that sometimes...

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...

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...