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The Sensational Experience of a Roman Funeral
In a house at the time of a funeral, you know that front reception hall might have a very different sensory se of sensescape to how it might have had to its isenscape at a different time. If we, if we take the example of, say, the funeral, this was where incense would be burned. This was where garlands were er draped around the atrium. And you would have trees put outside the house. The doors of the house would be shut to warn the community outside that this hatwat house was a house in mourning and it had er the dead within it. Within the atrium where the body laye was lying out for people to visit. That
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