List of Figures and Tables ; Introduction ; Project ; Religious thought ; Rituals ; Plants ; Gardens ; The Roman funerary ritual ; Cremation and burial ; Epigraphic, literary, and iconographic evidence ; Literary sources ; Epigraphic sources ; Iconographic evidence ; Mutina: The city and the Necropolis ; North of the Via Emilia ; South of the Via Emilia ; The Necropolises ; Site A
Novisad ; Site B
Ferrari ; Site C
Via Cesana ; Site D
Via Pica ; Site F
Fer-Mo-Sa ; Site G
Marzaglia Corpus Domini ; Site I
Spilamberto ; Material and methods ; The Mutina necropolis ; Necropolis of the ager mutinensis ; Archaeobotanical analysis ; Seeds/fruits ; Charcoals ; Results ; Archaeological remains ; Cooking and table ware ; Oil lamps ; Nails ; Decorated bones ; Archaeozoological remains ; Coins ; Archaeobotanical remains ; Charcoals ; CT-scan and Saxs analysis ; SAXS Results ; Discussion ; CT-scan discussion ; Conclusion ; Tombs analysed by funerary ritual aspects ; Site A ; Site B ; Site G ; Conclusion ; Bibliography.