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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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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The second largest room of his funerary complex, just a tad smaller than his actual burial chamber, was a wine cellar. |
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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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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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Overall it is an extremely rich concentration of late Neolithic and Bronze Age funerary monuments. |
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Moreover ship strakes were apparently used as funerary biers, and animals and weapons were sacrificed. |
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Ghanaians do not make or use masks, but there are some funerary effigies in clay. |
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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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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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There is always some light in his landscape of funerary monuments and beautiful, deadly vegetation. |
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In elite society, aristocratic funerary sculpture quickly replaced religious imagery with heraldic and symbolic devices. |
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Composed altogether of nine such scenes, the poem serves as a funerary monument. |
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When the sun beat down too fiercely, she would take me to the funerary temple of the great Queen Hatshepsut. |
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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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In fact, the hands of husband and wife were often linked in English funerary monuments. |
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First, Eurysaces' declaration may have functioned as a means of protecting his funerary monument. |
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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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Actually, late sixteenth-century playgoers, actors and playwrights considered the stage as a set of funerary items and buildings. |
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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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Arelate had a cemetery that compared favourably in the quality of its funerary monuments with the Appian Way. |
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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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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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These societies are well known for their funerary ceremonialism, most notably the building of burial mounds. |
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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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Other important historical contexts for lavish works of this kind were the splendid funerary shrouds placed in royal burials. |
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Most of the thousands of known fragments written by the Etruscans are funerary inscriptions. |
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It began as a funerary tradition but today is associated with a celebration. |
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An important early transformation in this apparently uniform written culture came with the use of palaeo-Christian epigraphy in funerary inscriptions. |
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This is one of the best known funerary monuments in the century. |
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The qubba is the dome of a funerary monument for a famous person. |
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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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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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The vast size, awe-inspiring character, and the ubiquity of their funerary monuments bear testimony to this obsession. |
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The capital of the Old Kingdom of Egypt has some extraordinary funerary monuments, including rock tombs, ornate mastabas, temples and pyramids. |
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Every family benefits from a private rest room at its disposal, a sympathy book and a funerary space. |
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A very poorly preserved funerary stele in the form of a stepped pyramid topped with a prism. |
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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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Equally important were mourning ceremonies, a series of funerary observances and anniversary commemorations of the dead. |
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Visitors hoping to see the young pharaoh's sumptuous gold funerary mask will find a replica behind glass. |
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On the death of an elderly parent, they will gather in numbers and participate in funerary rituals and dances. |
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The heritage value of funerary objects, grave markers, cemeteries and burial grounds is often recognized in land claims. |
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Our commission demanded that the French State respect fully the freedom of building mosques, funerary rituals, and culinary customs. |
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It can be a spiritual pollution related to the need for the soul of the deceased to be placated through appropriate funerary rites, but it may have a physical dimension. |
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During the time of the pharaohs, such funerary vessels were used to store the organs of the deceased. |
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Competition for notice spilled over into the Augustan period as individuals commissioned new and novel types of attention-commanding funerary monuments. |
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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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The Archaic period saw a great flowering of Etruscan art with the production of fine tomb paintings, funerary sculptures, and architectural terracottas. |
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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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The seven objects include small funerary statuettes or shabtis, a bronze axe head, a ceramic bowl and amulets to help the dead find their way to the afterlife. |
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At right, family members including a son, Khonsu's mother and sister, and others whose names and titles are missing, partake of a funerary repast. |
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From places of death to the lives of the deceased, from dying memories to funerary ballads, from obsequies to carcasses, these texts make up a mosaic of anxiety, suffering and hope. |
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It was also in relation to the funerary world that bucrania were placed at the bottoms of the pits. |
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The subjects are far-ranging: from cosmology to the study of funerary practices, to surveys of blogs by young people from problem areas, to comparisons between ritual dances and contemporary dance performances. |
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In the mastaba of Mereruka, a vizier of Teti, first king of the 6th dynasty, there were 21 rooms for his own funerary purposes, with six for his wife and five for his son. |
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The argument that the diasporic communities could establish their own funerary businesses to cater for their community may not be plausible because of economies of scale. |
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Two centuries and a half later, the Protestants who maybe were looking for ancestors in the wombs of the mountains, driven by vague and tragic memories, entered those funerary crypts. |
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The funerary inscriptions are from the columbarium of the servants of Livia Augusta, found in 1726 on the Via Appia: the list of the one hundred trades are of great interest for the imperial way of life. |
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The Chinese Government respects ethnic minorities' customs and habits in funerary rites, such as cremation, burial in the ground, water burial and celestial burial. |
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A second group comprises a selection of funerary stelae illustrating the development of writing and ornamentation between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. |
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Indigenous human remains and associated funerary objects and documentation shall be returned to their descendants, or custodians, as may be appropriate, in a culturally appropriate manner. |
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The folds of the chemise in Domenico Fetti's painting of Melancholy clutching a skull, for example, are echoed in the stone ruffles of a Baroque funerary monument displayed next to it. |
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The first diggings in 1862, with a series of vertical wells, crossed 8 meters in depth to reach the upper part of the funerary crypt in which magnificent furniture were discovered. |
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Burial took a more elaborate form a funerary chamber was dug at one end of a pit, and, after inhumation, the chamber was sealed by a mud brick wall. |
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There is considerable variation in burial practices, both spatially and chronologically, which suggests a lack of dogma about funerary rites. |
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Horses played a central role in funerary practices as well as in other rituals. |
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During this period, the Osiris funerary cult rose to dominate Egyptian popular religion. |
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It was depicted in art on the walls of tombs, and figured in funerary texts, as a protective symbol against snakes. |
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This utility led to the use of incense in funerary ceremonies because the incense could smother the scent of decay. |
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Mosaic funerary masks could also be fashioned from jade, such as that of K'inich Janaab' Pakal, king of Palenque. |
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These include dedicatory caches and other ritual deposits, shrines, and burials and their associated funerary offerings. |
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The best known are the Senegambian stone circles, built as funerary monuments, with more than a thousand known. |
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Temples could also serve funerary and commemorative functions. |
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But the glory of Old Kingdom mural decoration is the low-relief work in the royal funerary monuments of the 5th dynasty and in the private tombs of the 5th and 6th dynasties in the Memphite necropolis. |
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There is no comprehensive study of Southeast Asian Buddhist funerary traditions. |
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Excavations will continue at the tomb of Ptah Mes in an attempt to find the main shaft of the tomb, which will lead to the burial chamber where the deceased's sarcophagus and his funerary equipment were placed. |
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Team leader professor Georgi Kitov said that they also found a silver rhyton, silver and bronze vessels, pottery and funerary gifts. |
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Another reinterpreted a judgment scene from the ancient Egyptian funerary text, the Book of the Dead, through a modern lens. |
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The discovery of that many statues of the goddess funerary temple denotes the important role of the goddess during Amenhotep III's reign. |
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Auburn University archeologists excavated approximately 52 remains and funerary objects which were kept on-site in a secure location. |
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There is a stirring in the coffin business that is throwing the lid open on challenges facing the funerary industry. |
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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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Sculptors create a variety of furniture and household goods, aloalo funerary posts, and wooden sculptures, many of which are produced for the tourist market. |
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Chapter 3 concerns mortuary behaviour at the site and is particularly important for later considerations on palaeopathology and selective funerary practices. |
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This typological trait also appears in funerary vessels in Urnfield culture graves in the North Tyrol Inn Valley, which date to the SB IIb and SB IIc phases. |
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However, around 10 percent of those discovered during excavation had been placed on top of cremation urns, suggesting that they had a place in certain funerary rituals. |
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The human bones found by Gray point to some form of funerary purpose and have parallels in the disarticulated human bones often found at earlier causewayed enclosure sites. |
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Finds include bronze sculptures and terra cotta statues of human and animal figures, coins, funerary urns, household utensils, jewelry, highly decorated pottery, and spears. |
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Some were used as reduction pots to smelt copper ores, others have some organic residues associated with food, and still others were employed as funerary urns. |
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Archaeologists hope that the discovery will give insight into the funerary traditions of the ancient Parthian Empire, which is also known as the Arsacid Empire. |
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The vallus is known from funerary reliefs and literary descriptions. |
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