How To Use Cinerary In A Sentence
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Some of the objects were miniatures especially made for the funeral, and many were deliberately broken, with only a portion interred in the cinerary urns, with the rest perhaps kept as mementoes for the living, he added.
Anglo-Saxons honored their dead with mundane household objects
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The so-called cinerary urns are large vessels which have been usually discovered containing human bones; they have often been found inverted over cremated remains.
The Bronze Age in Ireland
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The walls contain only a few reused blocks (spolia) being mainly middle to late Hellenistic cinerary urns (osteothecae).
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Domestic Area Report 3
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a cinerary urn
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Bring me a cinerary urn," said he, and he walked forward to the dying embers.
The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome
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Swan inn, was a Roman burial ground, and several cinerary urns and some coffins have been discovered there.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
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The pottery is all "hand-made," and the bulk of the objects excavated are cinerary urns, usually found full of burnt bones.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
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Inside the dolium was a bronze cinerary urn containing the burnt bones wrapped in a linen cloth; silver items including a bowl and dragon fibula (garment pin); and small objects of ivory and amber.
Dig Like a Surgeon
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Inside the dolium was a bronze cinerary urn containing the burnt bones wrapped in a linen cloth; silver items including a bowl and dragon fibula (garment pin); and small objects of ivory and amber.
Dig Like a Surgeon
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It was discovered near Marlborough by Sir R.C. Hoare, and its contents proved it to be a cinerary urn of a date probably not much anterior to the Roman occupation of Britain.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
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It has three main parts: the low density burial area; an individual ossuary tower; and a cloistered ossuary and store for cinerary remains.
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The fine sarcophagi now found in museums, or applied to all sorts of uses, as water-troughs, vases for flowers, and various other purposes, were all originally in tombs, and generally in tombs in which there were also _columbaria_ for cinerary urns.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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It has three main parts: the low density burial area with individual graves partly dug into the hillside; an individual ossuary tower; and a cloistered ossuary and store for cinerary remains.
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To the south-east of the camp, on a spur of the hill and in the direction of Preston, is a remarkable and extensive British cemetery, from which numbers of cinerary urns and other relics have been excavated.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
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The site is made up of a burial area, an individual ossuary tower, a common ossuary / cinerary, and a service area.