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burning the dead body (Germany) A
cinerary urn. The
laces are used to
lower the urn into the
ground (Germany) A
sealed cinerary urn,
showing the ash capsule...
- "container" of the
whole set of
possible states.
Funerary urns (also
called cinerary urns and
burial urns) have been used by many civilizations.
After death...
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Cinerary altar with
tabula representing the rape of Proserpina.
White marble,
Antonine Era, 2nd
century CE....
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columbarium at
Chapel of the
Chimes in Oakland, California. Some of the
cinerary urns are book-shaped.
Columbarium at
Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia...
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Cinerary urn for the
freedman Tiberius Claudius Chryseros and two women,
probably his wife and daughter...
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columbaria (a type of
mausoleum for
cremated remains) with
additional cinerary urn niches.
Mausolea may be
located in a cemetery, a
churchyard or on private...
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Cinerary altar with
tabula representing the
abduction of Proserpina.
White marble,
Antonine Era, 2nd
century Rome,
Baths of Diocletian...
- : 30
Scholars debate whether the
heads of
reclining figures on
Etruscan cinerary urns are the
forebears to
Republican portraiture.: 30 It was traditional...
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Cinerary urns of the
Villanovan culture...
- The most
credited hypothesis holds that they were
originally fixed to
cinerary urns, to give them a
human appearance. In
Orientalising Clusium, the anthropomorphization...