Funeral Rites. When a member of the family died, the family held a funeral that was partly a private and partly a public event. The death of an infant often received little ceremony, other than the private grief of the family. Graves of babies were rarely marked. The nature of funeral proceedings varied depending on the means of the family. No one was buried inside the city walls. Most burials were along roadways. The large size of family tombs created something of a villagelike atmosphere, and the area where such tombs were found became known as a necropolis, literally, a "city of the dead." Poorer families would have the body taken out of the city, accompanied by the family members who would display their mourning by dirtying their clothes and faces and leaving their hair uncombed. The monument would reflect what they...