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- Puticuli were open pits used as m**** 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 m**** grave for poor people and waste. The Green Bay,...
- waste and dead bodies of the poor were dumped into m**** graves called puticuli. In Paris, the practice of m**** 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...
- 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...
- afford the expenses. The poorest people were inhumed in m**** graves called puticuli. The rest of the poor were buried in modest, small graves or were cremated...