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A shop window display of coffins at a Polish funeral director's office A casket showroom in Billings, Montana, depicting split lid coffins. A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, for either burial or cremation. Coffins are sometimes referred to as caskets, particularly in American English.
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 ...
Morgan Casket, 11th–12th centuries, Southern Italy, ivory The Becket Casket, about 1180–90, Limoges enamel, France, V&A Museum no. M.66-1997. This is a list of individual caskets with articles: Shinkot casket, 2nd century BC, Buddhist container for reliquaries, Gandhara, stone; Bajaur casket, 5–6 AD, Gandhara (now Pakistan), stone reliquary
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]
Hanging coffins in China are known in Mandarin as xuanguan (simplified Chinese: 悬 棺; traditional Chinese: 懸 棺; pinyin: xuán guān) which also means "hanging coffin". They are an ancient funeral custom of some ethnic minorities. The most famous hanging coffins are those which were made by the Bo people (now extinct) of Sichuan and ...
The ancient tomb was found buried in a cemetery in Assiut, Egypt around 240 miles south of Cairo ... The hieroglyphics on the coffins also call Idi the “lady of the house,” Wolfram Grajetzki ...
Coffin texts and wooden models disappeared from new tombs of the period while heart scarabs and figurines shaped as mummies were now often included in burials, as they would be for the remainder of Egyptian history. Coffin decoration was simplified. The Thirteenth Dynasty saw another change in decoration. Different motifs were found in the ...
A sarcophagus, which means "flesh-eater" in Greek, is a stone coffin used for inhumation burials. [9] Sarcophagi were commissioned not only for the elite of Roman society (mature male citizens), [10] but also for children, entire families, and beloved wives and mothers.