funerary urn. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
As it happens, we find one next to a funerary shop. From Wordnik.com. [Crime And Consequences In Beijing's Back Alleys] Reference
There were funerary urns, dance masks, and fertility symbols. From Wordnik.com. [The Tree of Death]
He offered his patients funerary services for aborted fetuses. From Wordnik.com. [Abortion-War Casualty] Reference
At another point a funerary inscription was found of an iron caster. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
Overview and preliminary reconstruction of the Tomb 23 funerary complex. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2007 - Field Note 6] Reference
How many overwrought funerary urns can one admire without ormolu fatigue?. From Wordnik.com. [Flights of Fancy, Centuries Apart] Reference
In these remarks I have been referring only to funerary portrait statues. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
Yet overwhelmingly, archaeological evidence from before the second century is funerary. From Wordnik.com. [GOP Rep. To Environmentalists: Jesus Already Saved The Planet] Reference
"Oh, yes, part of Clyde's belief system was preparation for your funerary rites," she said. From Wordnik.com. [Grave Surprise]
Egypt's first funerary masks, even if those from Tomb 23 are represented only by their ears!. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2007 - Field Note 6] Reference
Egypt is providing new clues to ancient ship construction and early funerary cult practices. From Wordnik.com. [This Old Boat] Reference
In eastern Europe there was also an explosion of funerary ritual, but it takes another form. From Wordnik.com. [Before the Pyramids...] Reference
We were avariciously kept for millennia in the funerary chambers of powerful kings and lords. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 12] Reference
First the ship in the ice had proved to be Viking, the funerary vessel of a Varangian warrior. From Wordnik.com. [Crusader Gold]
Bouriant two funerary inscriptions found in the necropolis dating from the second century A.D. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
Among the pieces on display are cutwork diadems, funerary masks, ornaments and ritual containers. From Wordnik.com. [Going for the Gold] Reference
In Africa, and among African-Americans in earlier times, drssing in red has been a funerary custom. From Wordnik.com. [Louis Collins] Reference
The funerary monuments of Egypt are perhaps the best known examples of early colossal architecture. From Wordnik.com. [Before the Pyramids...] Reference
The object is a small ivory plate with incised representations of funerary offerings before the king. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898] Reference
At the individual level, funerary frivolity trivializes both the death and the life that preceded it. From Wordnik.com. [The New Death] Reference
Who did not even know her husband was dead when Cinna's messenger came to present her with the funerary urn. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
This isn't the first time Marin has made headlines for its unusual funerary services, the Associated Press notes. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Home Poses Shooting Victim On His Motorcycle (VIDEO)] Reference
Archaeologists hope the excavation of two other tombs found nearby will help clarify the Gauls 'unusual funerary rites. From Wordnik.com. [Gaulish Discovery] Reference
The 12 panels of which we are now in possession represent, in fact, only a part of the decoration of a funerary monument. From Wordnik.com. [Pursuit of the Gladiators] Reference
At Varna in Bulgaria, conspicuous display of wealth begins to reveal itself in the funerary objects accompanying the dead. From Wordnik.com. [Before the Pyramids...] Reference
But such a statement does not accurately represent the attitude of mind of the people who devised these funerary ceremonies. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
He drew his knife and began working its straight iron blade into the pitch the funerary workers in Carcosa had used to seal it. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
Completely unexpected, it presages the funerary precincts of mud brick known in the First Dynasty over half a millennium later. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Hierakonpolis 2007 - Field Note 6] Reference
A second section presents dozens of replica funerary objects and interactive displays with scientific and historical information. From Wordnik.com. [Time Off Europe Calendar] Reference
He's checking the funerary sites linked to Hatshepsut and her immediate family, "all the places we can smell the queen," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Hatshepsut Found; Thutmose I Lost] Reference
The pottery from the polyandreia includes red-figure vases and white-ground lekythoi (oil vessels) with battle and funerary scenes. From Wordnik.com. [Fallen Heroes: Lines of Investigation] Reference
The building mentioned was a funerary chapel built to the east of Tipasa by Bishop Alexander to contain the tombs of his predecessors. From Wordnik.com. [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference
Barbara thought the burial of this mighty animal might be associated with this extensive and obviously very important funerary complex. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - The Elite Cemetery: Week 5] Reference
The public has accepted bhikkhunis, as demonstrated by their frequent invitation of bhikkhunis to their homes to perform funerary rites. From Wordnik.com. [A Summary Report of the 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages ��� Part Three: Day Two] Reference
His first project, in 1995, was the cleaning of the funerary monument of the doge Giovanni Pesaro, inside Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari. From Wordnik.com. [Canal Knowledge] Reference
At Abydos, Khasekhemwy built a funerary enclosure, which is two times larger than the Fort, to accompany his equally immense desert tomb. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Fixing the Fort] Reference
Yet the Hierakonpolis Fort has many features that are unique, suggesting it may not simply be an initial version of a funerary enclosure. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Fixing the Fort] Reference
At Hatshepsut's funerary temple at Deir el-Bahri, the reliefs of her expedition to Punt are interpreted as propganda reinforcing her rule. From Wordnik.com. [Hatshepsut Found; Thutmose I Lost] Reference
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