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Definition of Cinerary

Cinerary
Cinerary Cin"er*a*ry, a. [L. cinerarius, fr. cinis ashes.] Pertaining to ashes; containing ashes. Cinerary urns, vessels used by the ancients to preserve the ashes of the dead when burned.

Meaning of Cinerary from wikipedia

- burning the dead body (Germany) A cinerary urn. The laces are used to lower the urn into the ground (Germany) A sealed cinerary urn, showing the ash capsule...
- : 30  Scholars debate whether the heads of reclining figures on Etruscan cinerary urns are the forebears to Republican portraiture.: 30  It was traditional...
- "container" of the whole set of possible states. Funerary urns (also called cinerary urns and burial urns) have been used by many civilizations. After death...
- columbarium at Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, California. Some of the cinerary urns are book-shaped. Columbarium at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia...
- Cinerary urn for the freedman Tiberius Claudius Chryseros and two women, probably his wife and daughter...
- columbaria (a type of mausoleum for cremated remains) with additional cinerary urn niches. Mausolea may be located in a cemetery, a churchyard or on private...
- with portraits, which will be discussed in the section Sarcophagi and cinerary urns. Another Etruscan contribution to ****enistic sculpture is the formulation...
- The most credited hypothesis holds that they were originally fixed to cinerary urns, to give them a human appearance. In Orientalising Clusium, the anthropomorphization...
- contrast to the medieval model. Embedded in the wall there is a Roman cinerary urn used as a water reservoir. Originally the bronze doors of the church...
- Cinerary altar with tabula representing the rape of Proserpina. White marble, Antonine Era, 2nd century CE....