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A casket [1] is a decorative box or container that is usually smaller than a chest and is typically decorated. In recent centuries they are often used as boxes for jewelry, but in earlier periods they were also used for keeping important documents and many other purposes. [2] Many ancient caskets are reliquaries, for both Buddhist and Christian ...
A catafalque is a raised bier, box, or similar platform, often movable, that is used to support the casket, coffin, or body of a dead person during a Christian funeral or memorial service. [1] Following a Roman Catholic Requiem Mass , a catafalque may be used to stand in place of the body at the absolution of the dead or used during Masses of ...
In a cemetery south of Deir el-Balah anthropoid coffins were found when locals were reclaiming sand dunes. [17] The coffins were found among a few simple burials and when unearthed appeared to be in pristine shape, however they were actually being held together by the sand that had filled the cracks and was supporting the frame of the coffin from external pressure. [18]
Coffins are sometimes referred to as caskets, particularly in American English. Any box in which the dead are buried is a coffin, and while a casket was originally regarded as a box for jewelry , use of the word "casket" in this sense began as a euphemism introduced by the undertaker 's trade. [ 1 ]
The coffins were stacked on top of each other and upon opening, the mummies were found to be well preserved with their wrappings intact. [12] Mostafa Waziri , general secretary of Supreme Council of Antiquities, stated that the tomb is the largest cache found in a century, with previous noteworthy caches being DB320 , KV35 , and Bab el-Gasus .
The joint tombs of boat-shaped coffins (Chinese: 成都古蜀船棺合葬墓; pinyin: Chéngdū Gǔ Shǔ chuánguān hézàngmù; lit. 'Chengdu ancient Shu boat coffin joint burial tomb') are tombs of the ancient kingdom of Shu discovered in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, coinciding with the Spring and Autumn period (770–476 BC) and the Warring States period (476–221 BC).
Rishi coffins of two 17th Dynasty pharaohs, Sekhemre-Heruhirmaat Intef (left) and Sekhemre-Wepmaat Intef (right). Rishi coffins are funerary coffins adorned with a feather design, which were used in Ancient Egypt. They are typical of the Egyptian Second Intermediate Period, c. 1650 to 1550 BC. The name comes from ريشة (risha), Arabic for ...
An example from Yorkshire is the "Gristhorpe Man", [3] a well-preserved human of the second millennium BCE, who was found on 10 July 1834 under an ancient burial mound, buried in a hollow oak tree trunk and conserved at the Rotunda Museum, Scarborough. He was wrapped in an animal skin with a whalebone, bronze dagger, and food for his journey.