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Eros et Thanatos Ichnographia Campi Martii

The Sepulchra Libertorum et Servorum, tombs of both freedmen and slaves, fittingly provide a closure for the funerary structures along the axis of death, and at the same time, these tombs also reinforce the axis of life.

There is even inversion in the plans of the tombs themselves.

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A metabolic cardo and decumanus.

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