Cinerary

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. ❋ George Coffey (1886)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The walls contain only a few reused blocks (spolia) being mainly middle to late Hellenistic cinerary urns (osteothecae). ❋ Unknown (2003)

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. ❋ Unknown (1999)

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. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The combination of cinerary urns containing ashes, and of stone couches on which dead bodies were extended in the same tomb, is curious, showing that both modes of sepulture were practised at this period. ❋ Hugh Macmillan (N/A)

Vessels of clay, more or less ornate in character, which occur with these early interments of unburnt bodies, have been regarded as food-vessels and drinking-cups, differing in character and purpose from the cinerary urns of larger size in which the ashes of the dead were deposited after cremation. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is now proposed briefly to relate how this line was lost, when the politeness and philosophy, the literature and the Art of Greece were chained to the triumphal cars of Roman conquerors, -- and how it seems to have been found again in our own day, after slumbering so long in ruined temples, broken statues, and cinerary urns. ❋ Various (N/A)

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. ❋ Edric Holmes (N/A)

We entered one by one the nine small grotto-like compartments which surround the central cavern: the white shapes turned out to be cinerary urns, enclosing the ashes of the three thousand years dead Volumnii. ❋ Various (N/A)

Frequently the walls are pitted with the loculi of a columbarium, which, however, appear to be too small to receive cinerary urns and must be intended for some other purpose. ❋ Various (N/A)

The Columbaria near the tomb of the Scipios are three in number, and contain the cinerary urns of persons attached to the household of the emperors from the reign of ❋ Hugh Macmillan (N/A)

"Bring me a cinerary urn," said he, and he walked forward to the dying embers. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Count Victor, who had been warming his chilled fingers at the fire, moved to the curtain and drew it back, the better again to see that doleful cinerary urn. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)

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. ❋ Edric Holmes (N/A)

Unlike the pagans, who burned the bodies of their dead, and deposited, as we have seen, the ashes in cinerary urns which took up but little space, the Christians buried the bodies of their departed friends in rock-hewn sepulchres. ❋ Hugh Macmillan (N/A)

Swan inn, was a Roman burial ground, and several cinerary urns and some coffins have been discovered there. ❋ James Conway Walter (N/A)

Domitiana; and Justin Martyr and Pausanias both describe a round cinerary urn found in this spot which was said to have contained her ashes. ❋ Hugh Macmillan (N/A)

The pottery is all "hand-made," and the bulk of the objects excavated are cinerary urns, usually found full of burnt bones. ❋ Various (N/A)

Etruscans obtained the alabaster for their cinerary urns. ❋ Hugh Macmillan (N/A)