cinerary

Sometimes however the body was cremated with the ashes placed in a cinerary urn.

Embedded in the wall there is a Roman cinerary urn used as a water reservoir.

Cremated remains were placed in cinerary urns and then buried.

According to early Spanish accounts cinerary urns were found embedded in the capitals.

The remains are then placed in a container called an ash capsule, which generally is put into a cinerary urn.

This covered at least sixteen cinerary urns, mainly bucket-shaped.

The burials there are exclusively cinerary urns made of disintegrating unfired earth.

Roman Antiquities, such as coins, millstone and cinerary urns have been discovered near the site.

A few years ago, Mr. Morris was inspired to create a cinerary urn after his own mother's death.

They also brought with them at least twenty different types of tea, which they kept in airtight Javanese cinerary urns.

In ancient Roman religion, ollae (plural) have ritual use and significance, including as cinerary urns.

Ashes contained in cinerary urns and other monumental vessels were placed in tombs.

They had been buried in the Bronze Age style, with inverted cinerary urns placed over the cremation ashes.

This is being achieved with a twelve-unit Columbarium, offering a choice of over eight hundred exterior niches for cinerary urns.

In 1949 a columbarium (a chapel for the storage of cinerary urns) was added to the church, to a design by Edwin Carpenter.

In 1955 and 1956 the archaeologist Maurizio Borda excavated a necropolis with cinerary urns.

Holdings are as diverse as 1940 census papers, cinerary urns, dulcie cups, and curry powder bottles.

Modern mausolea may also act as columbaria (a type of mausoleum for cremated remains) with additional cinerary urn niches.

The most distinctive feature of Latial culture were cinerary urns in the shape of miniature tuguria ("huts").

The exhibition addresses the containment of the human body in death and features a series of funerary works, from cinerary jars to life-size sarcophagi.

Funerary urns (also called cinerary urns and burial urns) were used by many civilizations.

A sapphire blue cinerary urn has a remarkable, thick, ribbon-like handle, and an emerald-green bowl is awash with pin-prick bubbles.

The loved one's ashes were stored in cinerary urns or altars, often of elaborately carved marble with an inscribed epitaph; sometimes the altar was separate.

In 1909 several cinerary urns of late Celtic date were found near the road towards Worms Heath; one of them contained bones.

A columbarium is a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns (i.e. urns holding a deceased's cremated remains).