Archaeologists at the legionary cemetery of Legio in the Levant have discovered a pit containing only the jaws of thirteen domestic pigs, indicating a Roman funerary banquet ritual. The deposit, found near soldier graves, suggests the sacrifice of pigs during cemetery rites, aligning with Roman literary descriptions of such ceremonies.
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