FORMA

FORM. — A term used by the ancients to designate the channel of aqueducts; it later came to indicate any trench for burial, the flower of the earth, even if subdivided into multiple spaces, though this could also be referred to simply as *locus*.

Bulletti discovered in the above-ground area of the Domitilla cemetery a large marble slab bearing the epitaph of a certain Ambitonius, who «feci siti et suis locum hominibus n. VIII intro formas». A fragment of the slab is now in S. Maria in Trastevere. A two-place tomb was called *bincandens*, from *scandere* «to divide», *incadens* «for three».