During the Roman Empire lavish marble monuments to the dead were erected to decorate tombs and cemeteries. A group of these memorials, often so opulent that they required considerable economic sacrifice from the families who commissioned them, is catalogued in this volume.

• Foreword
  John Walsh
• Preface
  Guntram Koch
• Abbreviations
• I. Cinerary Urns, Kline Monument, and Sarcophagi
  • Rome And Environs
    • Early Imperial Period
    • Hadrianic/Early Antonine Periods
    • Middle Antonine Period
    • Late Antonine Period
    • Middle Severan Period
    • Late Severan/Gallienic Periods
    • Tetarchic Period
  • Athens
  • Asia Minor
• II. Grave Reliefs and Tomb Altars
  • Rome
  • Greece
  • Byzantium and Asia Minor
  • Syria
  • Egypt
• III. Grave Statues
  • Rome
  • Asia Minor
  • Syria
• IV. Forgeries
• Concordance