cinerary urn
(noun)
A vessel used to hold the ash remains of the cremated deceased.
Examples of cinerary urn in the following topics:
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Etruscan Art under the Influence of the Romans
- Smaller cinerary urns assumed the shapes of sarcophagi during this period.
- These urns are topped with images of the deceased lying across the lid, often in Roman dress, with relief-carved scenes of battle, violence, or Charun and Vanth.
- The woman who reclines atop the urn wears attire more akin to that of a Roman matron than to the woman on the Sarcophagus of the Spouses.
- Unlike the Etruscans, who buried their dead in tombs designed to mimic the appearance and comforts of private homes, the Romans practiced cremation and stored the ashes of their deceased in cinerary urns.
- Cinerary Urn for a woman with apotropaic imagery.
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The Romans
- The most distinctive feature of Latial culture were cinerary urns in the shape of huts.
- This Villanovan urn likely replicates the form that pre-Roman Latin huts assumed before the mid-seventh century BCE.
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Etruscan Tombs
- Burial urns and sarcophagi, both large and small, were used to hold the cremated remains of the dead.
- Early forms of burial include the burial of ashes with grave goods in funerary urns and small ceramic huts .
- Etruscan cinerary hut urn with a door.
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Tree Diagrams (optional)
- In an urn, there are 11 balls.
- There are a total of 11 balls in the urn.
- An urn has 3 red marbles and 8 blue marbles in it.
- Draw two marbles, one at a time, this time without replacement from the urn.
- You draw without replacement, so that on the second draw there are 10 marbles left in the urn.
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Sampling from a small population exercises
- Imagine you have an urn containing 5 red, 3 blue, and 2 orange marbles in it.
- Imagine you have an urn containing 5 red, 3 blue, and 2 orange marbles.
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The New World
- Ceramics such as this urn provide insight into the values, beliefs, and ceremonial rituals of early cultures of the Americas.
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Death
- Art related to death is represented in sculptures, masks, carvings, and urns.
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Ceramics in Mesopotamia
- This photograph depicts an urn that resembles today's flower vases, as well as bowls, cups, and a smaller vase.
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Sao
- They made bronze sculptures and terra cotta statues of human and animal figures, funerary urns, and highly decorated pottery.
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Dolley Madison and Washington City
- Jennings said that the people who saved the painting and removed the objects were John Susé [Jean-Pierre Sioussat] (a Frenchman, then door-keeper, and still living) and Magraw [McGraw], the President's gardener, took down Washington's painting and sent it off on a wagon with some large silver urns and such other valuables as could be hastily got hold of.