Funerary

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. ❋ Unknown (1891)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Within the rubble and vines and leaves were human bones and funerary pieces left to the elements. ❋ Kelly Keaton (2011)

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. ❋ Judy Fayard (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Melik Kaylan (2012)

I looked around the small space, noticing that the older funerary boxes were cracked and rotting, bones peeking through. ❋ Kelly Keaton (2011)

On each of the rectangular sides were two long shelves stacked with urns and funerary boxes. ❋ Kelly Keaton (2011)

"My brother is basically a sacrificial object, a funerary object, in the struggles of China-U.S. relations," Xue Ming said in an interview. ❋ By CHARLES HUTZLER (2011)

"My brother is basically a sacrificial object, a funerary object, in the struggles of China-US relations," Xue Ming said in an interview. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Although there are stone carvings and jade jewelry, the vast majority of these pre-Columbian treasures are fragile ceramics—platters, bowls, jugs, vases, incense burners, religious and funerary objects. ❋ Judy Fayard (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And it is through funerary customs that anthropologists can chart when civilization began. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Upside Down: Arctic Realities" shows masks, sculptures, funerary offerings and everyday objects from Russia, Alaska and other sites going back to 1000 B.C. Artist Doug Wheeler will manipulate the exhibition's environment, evoking the long and extreme Arctic nights and days. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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.). ❋ Unknown (2009)

In a connecting corridor in the exhibition, entitled "Graphic Mythologies," his "Nessus and Dejanira" 1920, for example, is aligned with painted red-figured and white-ground Greek funerary jars and an incised, bronze Etruscan mirror to show how the subtle economy of means that marked Picasso's invigorated and elegant new linear style owed as much to the classical past as did his painted evocations of ancient sculptures. ❋ Mary Tompkins Lewis (2011)