How To Use Funerary In A Sentence
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Of course this is possible, especially considering that Etruscans did make use of abbreviations normally for the praenomen of the deceased in funerary inscriptions.
Defining valid Etruscan word-initial clusters
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Roman funerary customs; art and mythology; women in classical antiquity.
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These meals included everyday meals, symposia, funerary banquets, sacrificial meals (often in temples), mystery cult meals, everyday Jewish meals, and Jewish festival meals.
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By arranging a selection of one 40 by 40-inch canvas plucked from each series — a Shot Orange Marilyn, a Liz, and a Red Jackie — on the wall of his bedroom at home in the expensive, “five-towns” suburb of Lawrence, Long Island, the collector Leon Kraushar not only compounded the allure of each subject, but by forming a kind of funerary polyptych for the sleek modern boudoir, surely also heightened the varying degrees of frank sexuality Andy applied to the eyes and lips of all three.
Archive 2009-01-01
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Most surviving examples are funerary, often commissioned quickly in response to unexpected death from disease, by no means uncommon in antiquity.
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There is always some light in his landscape of funerary monuments and beautiful, deadly vegetation.
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This is one of the best known funerary monuments in the century.
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Nonetheless, most, if not all, familial funerary portraits have become identified as a type of freedman art in scholarship, even when accompanying epigraphic evidence does not designate the social standing of those depicted.
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Funerary rites involve either a church service or a civil ceremony, depending on the beliefs of the deceased and his or her survivors.
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Remains of an early Christian funerary basilica dating back to the 5th century have been brought to light in Marseilles.
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The project's main aim was to study monumental tombs and funerary practices - a tough enough task on its own - and in the applications for funding we hadn't dared mention the hunt for a shipwrecked sailor.
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The only funerary trousseaux that remain intact are those of Hetepheres, mother of Cheops, which, it seems, were buried once again in the vicinity of the grand pyramid, and of Iahhetep I, whose sarcophagus was discovered by Mariette on the left bank of Thebes.
Exhibit of Egyptian Queens
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At a casual glance it might seem just another book about sarcophagi, another archaeological survey of tombs, funerary ritual, and the care of corpses.
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Most people in Thailand are cremated after three to seven days of funerary ceremonies and their ashes kept in a jar at temples.
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When saying, however, that all portraiture is in its origin funerary, I must not be understood to mean that such portraiture is of a memorial character.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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Left, gold wreath of flowering myrtle dating to the fourth century B.C. from a funerary cistus in a tumulus at Evropos, Kilkis (Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki) Right, a silver wine jug (Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aigai, Vergina) [LARGERIMAGE]
Great Alexander in New York
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This was a remarkable find, since little was known in those days about Old or Middle Kingdom temples apart from funerary monuments attached to royal burials.
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Stone funerary beds are set on each side of the main chamber.
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The tomb itself, as already stated, is known in funerary texts as the "House of the Ka"; and as each king on his accession began immediately to build his pyramid or excavate his rock-cut sepulchre, it followed that he was as much interested in providing for the future accommodation of his Ka as in providing for the future accommodation of his mummy.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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Other important historical contexts for lavish works of this kind were the splendid funerary shrouds placed in royal burials.
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Opinions may differ as to the nature of the Ka itself – one regarding it as a ghost, another as a double, another as an "eidolon" or genius; but no Egyptologist doubts that all forms of portraiture in ancient Egypt were funerary, or that they were expressly designed for the accommodation of the Ka.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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In Eternal Egypt, most of the sculptures, papyri, jewelry, funerary art, and objects from daily life are arranged chronologically, with some small thematic groupings such as scribal arts.
Museums: Egyptian Roadshows
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There is gold everywhere, testimony to the extraordinary workmanship of Macedonia's artisans: regal wreaths, intricate bracelets and earrings, bronze helmets framing gold funerary face masks, including one with an astonishing crooked smile circa 520 B.C.
Macedonia's Golden Artistry
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Overall it is an extremely rich concentration of late Neolithic and Bronze Age funerary monuments.
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Fournier's father worried that funerary services might not be the best choice for a petite blonde with actressy good looks and a winning way with words.
Sharon Glassman: What is Work: Why to Have a Green Burial from "The Green Reaper"
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The tree stump was hauled from the place of its growth to a funerary monument in a saltmarsh, and turned upside down.
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Also excavated was a contemporary stone building perhaps occupied by those taking part in funerary ceremonies.
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In a sense, stage properties like skulls and notions like funerary rituals are both historically marked signs and universal symbols.
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This mysterious funerary currency was cast in China but is an attempt to replicate a silver coin in circulation in Bactria and Northern India between 100 B.C. and 100 A.D. that was in turn a copy of a Byzantine gold coin, the solidus.
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Funerary uses of vermillion, a form of mercuric sulfide, were common in China before they spread to western Japan.
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I looked around the small space, noticing that the older funerary boxes were cracked and rotting, bones peeking through.
Darkness Becomes Her
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Moreover ship strakes were apparently used as funerary biers, and animals and weapons were sacrificed.
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In elite society, aristocratic funerary sculpture quickly replaced religious imagery with heraldic and symbolic devices.
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And it is through funerary customs that anthropologists can chart when civilization began.
Bog People and Mummies « Colleen Anderson
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On each of the rectangular sides were two long shelves stacked with urns and funerary boxes.
Darkness Becomes Her
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I dunno, death seems to have a lot of commerce driving it (private armies, the “war machine”, etc.) and a lot of commerce associated with it (funerary businesses, etc.).
Sell something wonderful.
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Composed altogether of nine such scenes, the poem serves as a funerary monument.
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The eastern, public strip is a wide hall, terminated at its southern end by the funerary chapel, where the services are held.
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Since 1996 Greece has sought the return of a gold Macedonian funerary wreath, purchased from a Swiss dealer who acted as an intermediary.
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It began as a funerary tradition but today is associated with a celebration.
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The commission was clearly a turning point, representing a state of architectural flux; a decade later and he was a fully converted classicist in terms of both his funerary and domestic architecture.
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Roman funerary customs; art and mythology; women in classical antiquity.
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The white Hellenistic house lecythus consist a particular category of funerary gifts put in the tombs of the Classical period.
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Vandals have desecrated graves at a cemetery described as having some of the finest funerary art in the North of England.
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funerary urn
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In the next scene, Hsiao Kang sits in the back of a car with the funerary urn containing his dead father's ashes balanced on his knee.
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In a satirical perspective, it may be blaming us for disregarding funerary rituals, for keeping death in an undomesticated, barbaric status.
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Among the most elegant examples are a type of large, rounded jar or olla, originally used to contain food but later employed as funerary urns (although seemingly only for women and children).
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The great majority of Stone's other armorial cartouches were for funerary monuments, while the Russell / Brydges cartouches were obviously designed with the spirit of the grotto in mind.
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From its progress through the forest, the processional approach route eventually opens out into a clearing to reveal the main funerary hall attached to a row of family chapels.
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Funerary practices normally involve a simple ceremony of blessings and remembrance by family members and friends in a chapel or funeral parlor, leading to interment or cremation.
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The stone floor and the burial niches were empty of funerary objects and swept clean.
INCA GOLD
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As the political darling of the resurgent military nation, Turenne's tomb tacitly reinstated the ‘vainglorious’ funerary monument and the theme of the dying hero in official funerary designs.
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Some non-funerary monumental medieval and early-renaissance retablos also seem to have incorporated images of the Vir Dolorum as a centrepiece, even when such works bore dedications to the Virgin.
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It was a major blow for the Penn Museum and scholars such as University of Pennsylvania professor Victor Mair, who has for decades been studying these mummies and the astounding collection of textiles, funerary objects, domestic articles, jewelry and religious pieces found in a region that became crucial to the Silk Road.
Following controversy, mummies at Penn Museum remain objects of mystery
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Although a handful of imported marble sarcophagi and a number of sculpted stelai are known, the cippus was the funerary monument of choice for the middle classes.
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The qubba is the dome of a funerary monument for a famous person.
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The first century Egyptian funerary "Mummy Portraits," on wood panels, so vivid and naif, inspired styles of Christian icon paintings that lasted well into the 19th century in Russia.
Transformational Objects
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There's a defiled cemetery in the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the city I was born in. People who can't afford to pay funerary services often bury their loved ones here.
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Among these the Underworld was the great unknown and was therefore the dominant feature of funerary texts from the Middle Kingdom onwards.
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Certain of his objects could almost be funerary monuments.
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Ramesses claimed the victory from this drawn fight, celebrated in monumental funerary temple reliefs still visible at Thebes on the Nile.
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All portraiture is in its origin funerary – that is to say, the earliest known specimens of portraiture are found in tombs, and represent the dead.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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First, Eurysaces' declaration may have functioned as a means of protecting his funerary monument.
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Arelate had a cemetery that compared favourably in the quality of its funerary monuments with the Appian Way.
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Further evidence for ceremonial feasting is indicated by the presence of quantities of cattle and caprine bones in funerary contexts.
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It's the reverse of birthdays, this laying out outside the meats and cheese, cruets of oil standing sentry at the table and each guest barely able to breathe in the funerary wreaths of citronella haze.
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For example, while acknowledging that Whitney wants us to worship religious monuments and funerary traditions, we may wonder which Church he is referring to.
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These societies are well known for their funerary ceremonialism, most notably the building of burial mounds.
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Within the rubble and vines and leaves were human bones and funerary pieces left to the elements.
Darkness Becomes Her
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There's a defiled cemetery in the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the city I was born in. People who can't afford to pay funerary services often bury their loved ones here.
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The square funerary monument was found to contain a series of stelae with inscriptions and five urns.
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However, as early as 1614 there is a red heel clearly visible in the funerary monument to Sir John and Lady Doddridge in Exeter Cathedral.
Scarlet Heels
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In funerary rites or in cases of houses subject to the intrusions of snakes, this reverse direction is followed by the priest.
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From Tao Fanglun a funerary object judges initially, the grave master favors in is a female.
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Is it not possible that at least some of the anonymous or undesignated family funerary portraits depict the unmarked yet numerous freeborn individuals who have virtually disappeared from scholarly notice?
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However, in 1614 the States General commissioned him to design the funerary monument for William the Silent in the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft.
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In fact, the hands of husband and wife were often linked in English funerary monuments.
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He has suggested the entire complex was a funerary monument.
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The Archaic period (c. early 6th century - 480 BC) saw a great flowering of Etruscan art with the production of fine tomb paintings, funerary sculptures, and architectural terracottas.
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Actually, late sixteenth-century playgoers, actors and playwrights considered the stage as a set of funerary items and buildings.
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Ghanaians do not make or use masks, but there are some funerary effigies in clay.
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His body lies beneath the vast funerary monument shaped by Jacob Epstein, but not even its megalithic weight can keep the spirit of Oscar Wilde earthbound.
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Among the pieces on display are cutwork diadems, funerary masks, ornaments and ritual containers.
Going for the Gold
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Although in Act II, the Sylphs either sparkled like diamonds in their sunny glade or incandesced in the funerary moonlight, in Act I, the Sylph shined like the Evening Star - only in twilight.
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In elite society, aristocratic funerary sculpture quickly replaced religious imagery with heraldic and symbolic devices.
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The material found in front of the palisade fence, in the ditches, and within the interior suggested to the excavator that the site was used for ritual, ceremonial, and funerary purposes by a fairly large group of people.
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It is not unusual to see busts or heads serving as lugs for lids of large funerary vessels, especially among the Kwahu subgroup.
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And there are some, they continued, that are incredibly important, such as the series of Kwahu funerary terracottas or the 1971 sequence showing the Timi of Ede in Nigeria.
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To the funerary historian the Tor Abbey Jewel is a highly important record.