Cinerary Sentence Examples

Their craftsmanship is proved by the large cinerary urns, by the jugs with wide, deeply ribbed, scientifically fixed handles, and by vessels and vases as elegant in form and light in weight as any that have been since produced at Murano.

A large number of the inscriptions are painted upon the tiles which closed the niches containing the cinerary urns.

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.

Nearly fifty skeletons were discovered, mostly lying upon charred logs, surrounded with cinerary urns filled with partially burned bones.

The pottery is all "hand-made," and the bulk of the objects excavated are cinerary urns, usually found full of burnt bones.

There was also a bronze spearhead and part of a beaker and a cinerary urn.

Near the same spot was found, some years ago, a clay cinerary urn, of the form commonly held to be Roman.

In the first period (Italic) cremation burials closely approximating to the Villanova type are found; in the second 1 (Venetian) the tombs are constructed of blocks of stone, and situlae (bronze buckets), sometimes decorated with elaborate designs, are frequently used to contain the cinerary urns; in the third (Gallic), which begins during the 4th centilry B.C., though cremation continues, the tombs are much poorer, the ossuaries being of badly baked rough clay, and show traces of Gallic influence, and characteristics of the La-Tene civilization.

Three coarseware cinerary urns containing cremated bones and also two small flagons.