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M. Toutain had commenced researches in two necropoli of the city hoping to find tombs and epitaphs of the freedmen and slaves employed in the neighbouring quarries.
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I at first encountered much repugnance on the part of the inhabitants to excavate the tombs; finally, with some money and very long explanations, I brought them to terms and, thanks to my tomb-hunters, I found and excavated the necropoli of Horil,
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These necropoli, in which inhumation appears to have been almost exclusively used, should be divided into two large groups.
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Vicentini (Vicenza, 1786); GIAROLO, La necropoli cristiana di Vicenza
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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Thugga is now Dougga, a village of Tunis, famous for Its ruins, among which are the temple of the Capitol Built under Marcus Aurelius, a theatre, three triumphal arches, Roman necropoli, and a Punic
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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