Editing Empúries (section)

== Necropolis ==
The necropolis of Empúries remained in use for a very long period, from the 7th century BC up to the Middle Ages, but many tombs were looted. [[Martín Almagro Basch]] wrote two books<ref>Martín Almagro "Las Necrópolis de Ampurias I: Las Necrópolis Griegas" Barcelona 1953 y Martín Almagro "Las Necrópolis de Ampurias II: Las Necrópolis Romanas e Indígenas. Barcelona 1955.</ref> collecting all data on the majority of cemeteries in the area. There are four types: early Greek and Iberian, late Republican, early Roman Empire and [[later Roman Empire|late Roman Empire]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.xtec.cat/sgfp/llicencies/200203/memories/rtorne/public_html/distremp.pdf |title=Alfonso López Borgoñoz "Distribución cronològica y espacial de las necròpolis ampuritanas" en VV.AA. "De les estructures indígenes a l'organització provincial romana de la Hispania Citerior" pp. 275-298. ''Institut d'Estudis catalans''. Ítaca. Barcelona, 1998. |access-date=2011-08-07 |archive-date=2011-09-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930155746/http://www.xtec.cat/sgfp/llicencies/200203/memories/rtorne/public_html/distremp.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Early Greeks and Iberians (6th–3rd century BC)===
[[File:Empuries MaisonduPeristyle.jpg|thumb|Ruins of a [[peristyle]] home from the Greek period of Empúries]]
Burials were located in the southern and western sides of ''Neapolis''. The western sector was occupied by the so-called ''necropolis of the wall northeast''. Inhumation (Greeks) predominated while a third of burials were cremations (Iberians).

=== Late Republican (2nd–1st century BC) ===
The ancient necropolis remained in use with inhumations and cremations, possibly Greek and indigenous from the ''Neapolis''. Cremations predominated in another group, possibly of Roman origin, whose cemetery is located on the north side of the neighboring hill of Les Corts, located southwest of the city. This necropolis was in use particularly during the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. Archaeologists found small mounds built with square blocks of stone with the remains of cremation in the middle.

=== Early Roman Empire (1st century BC – 2nd century AD) ===
No burials have been found clearly from the second quarter of the 1st century BC until the reign of Augustus (about 35&nbsp;years). Cremation burials then predominated until the reign of Emperor Flavian (at the end of the 1st century AD) around a hillside where the Roman city is located.

Burial rituals changed in the 2nd century AD, with only inhumations found.<ref>[http://www.raco.cat/index.php/AnnalsGironins/article/view/54233/63723 Alfonso López Borgoñoz "Las necrópolis altoimperiales ampuritanas" pp. 711-744. ''Annals de l'Institut d'Estudis Gironins''. Vol. XXXVII, 1996 - 97 Girona, 1997.]</ref>

=== Late Roman empire (3rd – 6th century) ===
Precise chronologies are hampered by the lack of grave goods in tombs. The whole area of the ancient Greek city was filled with inhumation burials, perhaps related to the worship of the early Christian basilica or Cella Memoria, situated there. Burials are also in many of the ancient necropolis of earlier times (as Bonjoan, in use for a thousand years) and in new ones. It is possible they were related to the [[Roman villa]]e located near them. There is a monument of El Castellet and nearby tombs.<ref>[http://www.raco.cat/index.php/AnnalsEmpordanesos/article/viewFile/93233/166660 Josep M. Nolla; Jordi Sagrera "Ciuitatis Impuritanae Coementeria. Les necròpolis tardanes de la Neàpolis" Girona: Facultat de Lletres de la Universitat de Girona, Girona, 1995, 329 p. Estudi General, 15.] and [http://www.raco.cat/index.php/AnnalsEmpordanesos/article/viewFile/93272/166609 Josep M. Nolla "Tombes i cementiris del sector nord-oriental del turó d’Empúries" Arqueologia AIEE, Figueres, 33(2000), pàg. 11-20.]</ref>