Table X. Sacred Law
1. A dead person shall not be buried or burned in the city.59
2. More than this shall not be done. The funeral pyre (rogum) shall not be smoothed with the axe.60
3. [Expenses of a funeral shall be limited to] three [mourners wearing] veils and one [mourner wearing] small purple tunic and ten flute-players.
4. Women shall not tear their cheeks or have a lessus (sorrowful outcry)61 on account of the funeral.
5. The bones of a dead person shall not be collected that one may make a funeral afterward.62 An exception is for death in battle or on foreign soil.63
6. Anointing by slaves and every kind of drinking-bout is abolished … [there shall be] no costly sprinkling, no myrrh-spiced drink, no long garlands, no incense-boxes.
7. Whoever wins a crown (corona)64 himself or through his chattel65 or by his valor, [a crown] is bestowed on him [, when he is burned or buried] … on him (who has won it) and on his father [it shall be laid] with impunity (sine fraude).
8. This also shall not be done: to make more than one funeral and to spread more than one bier for one person.
9. Gold shall not be added [to a corpse]. But him whose teeth shall have been fastened with gold, if a person shall bury or shall burn him with that (gold), it shall be with impunity (sine fraude).
10. It is forbidden for a new pyre (rogum) or a burning-mound (bustum) to be erected nearer than sixty feet to another person’s buildings without the owner’s consent.66
11. It is forbidden for a vestibule of a sepulcher (forum) and a burning-mound (bustum)67 to be acquired by usucapion.