Cinerary-urns Sentence Examples
cinerary-urns
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.
Three coarseware cinerary urns containing cremated bones and also two small flagons.
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