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  2. Grave Stele of Hegeso - Wikipedia

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    The monument of Hegeso would have been viewed within a peribolos tomb, facing the Street of Tombs on the left of the stele for Koroibos of Melite, a deme in the west of Athens. Though his rosette stele only lists Koroibos, his sons, and grandson (up to possibly five generations) in the inscription, most label Hegeso as the wife of Koroibos.

  3. Roman funerary art - Wikipedia

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    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Historical Roman art genre. Marble cinerary chest (90–110 AD), made by Marcus Domitius Primigenius "for himself, his freedmen and freedwomen, and their descendants": the deceased makes an offering to a reclining female figure who may be Mother Earth, with two attendants holding food and wine ...

  4. Funerary art in Puritan New England - Wikipedia

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    Funerary art in Puritan New England encompasses graveyard headstones carved between c. 1640 and the late 18th century by the Puritans, founders of the first American colonies, and their descendants. Early New England Puritan funerary art conveys a practical attitude towards 17th-century mortality; death was an ever-present reality of life, [1 ...

  5. Epigraphic monuments in the cemetery of Shaki Khan

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    General information. There were 15-20 written headstones in the Shaki Khan cemetery, located on the eastern side of the Shaki Khans' Mosque. [1] Currently, there are only 10 inscribed headstones and one inscribed tombstone. Mashadikhanim Nemat reported about the inscriptions of 9 headstones in the cemetery in his article published in a ...

  6. List of memorials and monuments at Arlington National Cemetery

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    There are over 300,000 headstones and hundreds of memorials at Arlington National Cemetery. Arlington House itself is a memorial to George Washington.The son of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, John Parke Custis purchased the 1,100-acre (450 ha) tract of wooded land on the Potomac River north of Alexandria, Virginia in 1778.

  7. Gravestone - Wikipedia

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    The cemetery owner, church, or, as in the UK, national guidelines might encourage the use of 'tasteful' and accurate wording in inscriptions. The placement of inscriptions is traditionally placed on the forward-facing side of the memorial but can also be seen in some cases on the reverse and around the edges of the stone itself.

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