His ordo decrevit: honores fúnebres en las ciudades de la Bética

Abstract

From the information provided by the epigraphic sources, we present the different types of funeral honours decreed by the municipal senates of the cities of the Baetica. The analysis of the inscriptions leads us to raising possible solutions that allow to explain the absence of the term funus publicum in the hispanic epigraphy, or the presence of laudatio between the honours granted by the municipalities and colonies of Hispania and Mauritania. Also, we approach other subjects of interest, like the place of location of the decreed statues; the burial places used by those who received locus sepulturae; the social groups to which the honoured ones belonged; and the financing of these honours.