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[B] The headstones were a relatively small part of the overall expense; in the 1720s headstones ranged from £2 to over £40. [38] By the mid-18th century, death's head image had become less stern and menacing. The figure was often crowned, the lower jaw eliminated, and serrations of teeth appeared on the upper row.
Merry Cemetery and its church Merry Cemetery (video) The workshop at Stan Ioan Pătraș's house where the tombstones of Merry Cemetery were created. The Merry Cemetery (Romanian: Cimitirul Vesel pronounced [tʃimiˈtirul ˈvesel], Hungarian: Vidám temető) is a cemetery in the village of Săpânța, Maramureș County, Romania.
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.
Tombstone of Bishop Hallum (d.1416), Constance Cathedral, showing gothic memorial text on a ledger line. A ledger line refers to the parallel lines incised or sculpted around the edge of the top surface of a mediaeval ledger stone (), laid flat on the floor of a church or on top of a chest tomb (or "altar-tomb"), within which lines is inscribed an epitaph or simple biographical memorial text ...
Boothill Graveyard is a small graveyard of at least 250 interments located in Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona. [2] Also known as the "Old City Cemetery", the graveyard was used after 1883 only to bury outlaws and a few others.
Military tombstones are most commonly from the 1st and 2nd centuries AD; the pre-Marian army used soldiers for specific campaigning periods; such soldiers would return to civilian life after serving in Rome's conflicts. The longer terms of military service instituted in the late 1st century BC provide more numerous examples.
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.
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]