Pausanias speaks, however, twice of cinerary urns containing heroic ashes of Ariadne at Argos (ii.
A large number of the inscriptions are painted upon the tiles which closed the niches containing the cinerary urns.
A columbarium was a tomb containing a number of cinerary urns in niches like pigeon-holes, whence the name.
The 2nd Room-- Is a corridor filled with cinerary urns, chiefly from Volterra, bearing recumbent figures, ludicrously stunted.
In the comers are some curious cinerary urns shaped like houses.
Closely allied to the cinerary urns were the vases intended solely for ornamental purposes.
To this class belong many of the cinerary urns exhumed from the tombs.
From the old tumuli, or barrows, have been exhumed urns in which were held the cinerary remains of the dead (Fig.
There were also cinerary urns, cups, usually called incense cups, which were certainly not used for incense, whatever may have been their purpose, food and drinking vessels.
The Ponte Sodo and the tombs near it are worth attention, as is also the ancient Etruscan tomb called the Grotta Campana, in which a most interesting set of sepulchral ornamentations and cinerary urns has been preserved.
The date of this tomb cannot precede the Antonine era, as there are nocinerary urns in it.
Some of them are decorated with a variety of incised lines, and may have been worn as marks of distinction or as personal ornaments held in great esteem, as they are not uncommon among the relics deposited in the cist or cinerary urn.
There are not wanting, however, numerous examples both of native domestic pottery and of cinerary urns, found along with relics which leave no room to question their belonging to the Bronze Period.
Hence the bow and spear, the sword, shield, and other implements of war and the chase, laid beside the rude cinerary urn, or deposited in the cist with the buried chief.
These fragments, there seems no reason for doubting, are the remains of cinerary urns which once contained the substances scattered around, and to which the slates served for covers.
The cairn and tumulus, the cist and cinerary urn, all occur accompanied with contemporary relics.
In some of them were found cinerary urns, while others contained the entire skeleton.
Cinerary urns of the same class have been frequently found accompanied with relics corresponding to the era of Roman occupation.
Illustration] In striking contrast to these minute sepulchral relics, many of the Scottish cinerary urns are of an unusually large size.
It contained eleven cists, several of which inclosed cinerary urns, but no metallic relics were found in them.
Pennant has engraved a large cinerary urn, discovered along with three others, on opening a cairn on the hill of Down, near Banff.
One of these was discovered, alongside of a cinerary urn, in a tumulus at Memsie, Aberdeenshire.
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.
The cinerary urns often supply evidence as to the construction of the roofs, with their exact imitation of tiles.
Sometimes the cinerary urns in the tombs of this period take the form of huts (tuguria), though these are more often found in the neighbourhood of Rome, as at Alba Longa.
Those used in burial were usually of a globular form, or even dolia with the necks and handles broken off, and contained cinerary urns and glass vessels.
The plain wares include cinerary urns, deep bowls or jars, with simple ornament, open bowls with impressed patterns, and mortaria.
The pozzo tombs usually contain a large cinerary urn or ossuarium, in which the ashes were placed after being burnt (Fig.
The cinerary urns were often formed from large dolia or amphorae, the neck being broken off so as to produce a globular vessel.
Several examples of Roman cinerary urns and sepulchral relief are here shown.
The Etruscan cinerary urns are distinguished by the frequent introduction of the portrait.
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.
Hoare, and its contents proved it to be a cinerary urn of a date probably not much anterior to the Roman occupation of Britain.
The combination of cinerary urns containing ashes, and of stone couches on which dead bodies were extended in the same tomb, is curious, showing that both modes of sepulture were practised at this period.
From the quarry near Volterra the Etruscans obtained the alabaster for their cinerary urns.
The tombs of the period of the early empire were by no means exclusively for the columbaria for cinerary urns.
Within the cell stand the cinerary urns, sometimes one, sometimes more.
This place was formerly a Romano-Gaulish settlement; in a field near the town a considerable number of cinerary urns have been dug up.
Beside two of the cinerary urns were hones of grit, rounded on one side and flat on the other, with a groove running down the middle.
A small chamber, only of sufficient size to receive the cinerary urn, in the centre of an upheaval of earth, was sufficient for the graves of the heroes who fell before Troy.
It is square in shape, with two recesses for cinerary urns on each side, and three in the front wall.
Both statues, the bust, the cinerary urns, and the inscriptions, are now exhibited in Michelangelo's cloisters in the Museo delle Terme.
The room contained nine niches, and each niche a cinerary urn, of which six were still untouched.
The tomb contained one hundred and eighty loculi for cinerary urns, and each of the shareholders was consequently entitled to five.
I wish I could tell my readers that my hands did actually touch the bones of those murdered patricians, and the contents of their cinerary urns.
The same difficulty was experienced when cinerary urns had to be placed in their niches; and the funeral tablets and memorials containing the name, age, condition, etc.
These inferiæ, or rites, could be celebrated easily if the loculus and the cinerary urn were near the ground, while ladders were required to reach the upper tiers.
All along the walls, below the line of the stuccoes, were excavated shelves, on which stood numbers of small cinerary boxes, each bearing a name.
A square bottle of green glass, found in a grave with cinerary urns.
A cinerary urn of grey ware for containing the ashes of the dead.
Sepulchral or Cinerary Urns, which have been made for, and have contained or been inverted over, calcined human bones.
This party consisted of some of the authorities of the city and some porters, bearing on a slab of verd antique a magnificentcinerary vase, that was about to be placed in the Campo.
The so-called cineraryurns are large vessels which have been usually discovered containing human bones; they have often been found inverted over cremated remains.
Model of cinerary urn, showing its position in cist over burnt bones and small vessel, Greenhills, Co.
In the fine cist discovered at Greenhills, County Dublin, and now set up in the National Museum, a very remarkable little cup was found inside the large inverted cineraryurn (fig.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cinerary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dismal; feral; funeral; funereal; mortuary; mournful; obituary; sepulchral
