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  2. Epitaph - Wikipedia

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    An epitaph (from Ancient Greek ἐπιτάφιος (epitáphios) 'a funeral oration'; from ἐπι-(epi-) 'at, over' and τάφος (táphos) 'tomb') [1] [2] is a short text honoring a deceased person. Strictly speaking, it refers to text that is inscribed on a tombstone or plaque, but it may also be used in a figurative sense.

  3. Roman funerary art - Wikipedia

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    Nonetheless, tombstones and epitaphs dedicated to infants were common among freedmen. [94] Of the surviving collection of Roman tombstones, roughly 75 percent were made by and for freedmen and slaves. [95] Regardless of class, tombstones functioned as a symbol of rank and were chiefly popular among those of servile origin. [96]

  4. File:Tombstone epitaph., December 31, 1922.pdf - Wikipedia

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    The Tombstone Epitaph; Metadata. This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.

  5. List of types of funerary monument - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of types of funerary monument, a physical structure that commemorates a deceased person or a group, in the latter case usually those whose deaths occurred at the same time or in similar circumstances.

  6. Funeral oration (ancient Greece) - Wikipedia

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    A funeral oration or epitaphios logos (Ancient Greek: ἐπιτάφιος λόγος) is a formal speech delivered on the ceremonial occasion of a funeral.Funerary customs comprise the practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.

  7. Epitaphios (liturgical) - Wikipedia

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    The Epitaphios (Greek: Ἐπιτάφιος, epitáphios, or Ἐπιτάφιον, epitáphion, meaning "upon the tomb"; Slavonic: Плащаница, plashchanitsa; Arabic: نعش, naash) is a Christian religious icon, typically consisting of a large, embroidered and often richly adorned cloth, bearing an image of the dead body of Christ, often accompanied by his mother and other figures ...

  8. Laudatio Turiae - Wikipedia

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    This inscription is traditionally known as the "Laudatio Turiae," "The Praise of Turia," [3] [4] because its subject was generally identified with Curia, the wife of Quintus Lucretius Vespillo, consul in 19 BC, [5] [6] on the basis of comparison with the histories of Valerius Maximus (6, 7, 2) and Appian (Bell.civ. 4, 44), which report that Turia saved her husband in much the same way ...

  9. Early Christian inscriptions - Wikipedia

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    Christian inscription on a deacon's tombstone from present-day Austria, dated to the year 533 by the use of consular notation. The earliest of these epitaphs are characterized by their brevity, only the name of the dead being given. Later a short acclamation was added, such as "in God" or "in Peace."

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