A cinerary urn. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a cinerary urn. From Dictionary.com.
Etruscans obtained the alabaster for their cinerary urns. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
"Bring me a cinerary urn," said he, and he walked forward to the dying embers. From Wordnik.com. [The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome] Reference
Swan inn, was a Roman burial ground, and several cinerary urns and some coffins have been discovered there. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
The walls contain only a few reused blocks (spolia) being mainly middle to late Hellenistic cinerary urns (osteothecae). From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Domestic Area Report 3] Reference
The pottery is all "hand-made," and the bulk of the objects excavated are cinerary urns, usually found full of burnt bones. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Dig Like a Surgeon] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
Model of cinerary urn from Greenhills, Co. Dublin, 97 85. From Wordnik.com. [The Bronze Age in Ireland] Reference
We give above a specimen of the highest class of cinerary urns. From Wordnik.com. [An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800] Reference
Within the cell stand the cinerary urns, sometimes one, sometimes more. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two] Reference
The room contained nine niches, and each niche a cinerary urn, of which six were still untouched. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan and Christian Rome] Reference
Model of cinerary urn, showing its position in cist over burnt bones and small vessel, Greenhills. From Wordnik.com. [The Bronze Age in Ireland] Reference
It is square in shape, with two recesses for cinerary urns on each side, and three in the front wall. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan and Christian Rome] Reference
I went out and found that they had unearthed a large Roman cinerary urn, containing some calcined bones. From Wordnik.com. [From a College Window] Reference
The new grave site will be shaped like the outline of a ship, and may only be used for cinerary urns, the newspaper writes. From Wordnik.com. [Random feeds from Syndic8.com] Reference
Some very fine cinerary urns and Barrow pottery from the Plain, together with models, and a reconstruction of Stonehenge after. From Wordnik.com. [Stonehenge Today and Yesterday] Reference
The tomb contained one hundred and eighty loculi for cinerary urns, and each of the shareholders was consequently entitled to five. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan and Christian Rome] Reference
We, however, soon found fragments of two broken cinerary urns, one of fine clay, painted with red and black, the other much coarser and stronger, without ornament. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
A flint knife, a flint arrow-head, and a small fibula of bone were found among the rubbish, along with some cinerary urns; but no bronze or other metallic implements. From Wordnik.com. [Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1] Reference
In that collection may be seen several cinerary urns, incense cups and food vessels from Hutton Buscel, Ganton, Slingsby, Egton and other places in the vicinity of Pickering. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of an English Town] Reference
It appears on a cinerary urn of Chiusi, and on the fibula found in the famous Etruscan tomb at Cere (Grifi, Mon. di. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
The rest of the note was about cinerary urns. From Wordnik.com. [Henrietta Temple A Love Story] Reference
Urns, cinerary, 266. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan and Christian Rome] Reference
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