But, for the most part, there was a standard format for imperial funerals in Rome, first established for the last rites of Augustus, in 14 C.E., and based on the distinctive funerary traditions of the old republican élite.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/03/the-divine-comedy-of-roman-emperors-last-words

To Esarey, who earlier in his career had excavated some of the human remains and pulled out funerary objects to put on display, it was the bittersweet dismantling of a world he helped build.

Source: https://www.propublica.org/article/repatriation-nagpra-museums-dickson-mounds-museum