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2. Roman funerary art - Wikipedia

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   Often, practical funerary altars were constructed to display vessels that contained the ashes and burnt bones of the deceased. These ash urns were placed in deep cavities of the altars that were then covered with a lid. [5] Other times, there was a depression in the altar in which libations could be poured. [6]

3. Columbarium - Wikipedia

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   In Buddhism, ashes may be placed in a columbarium (in Chinese, a naguta ("bone-receiving pagoda"); in Japanese, a nōkotsudō ("bone-receiving hall"), which can be either attached to or a part of a Buddhist temple or cemetery. This practice allows survivors to visit the temple and carry out traditional memorials and ancestor rites.

4. Urn - Wikipedia

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   Funerary urns (also called cinerary urns and burial urns) have been used by many civilizations. After death, corpses are cremated , and the ashes are collected and put in an urn. Pottery urns, dating from about 7000 BC, have been found in an early Jiahu site in China, where a total of 32 burial urns are found, [ 1 ] and another early finds are ...

5. I wore my mother’s ashes around my neck. Then I found ... - AOL

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   In February 2020, the mother of a stillborn boy contacted authorities to report that she’d been given more ashes than could fit in an infant-sized urn by a funeral home operated by Shannon Kent ...

6. Vatican eases rules on the ashes of the dead - AOL

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   It also said the ashes of the dead may be mixed in a common urn, rather than kept separately, as long as the identity of each deceased is marked "so as not to lose the memory of their names."

7. Funerary art - Wikipedia

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   The chamber decoration usually centred on a "false door", through which only the soul of the deceased could pass, to receive the offerings left by the living. [18] Representational art, such as portraiture of the deceased, is found extremely early on and continues into the Roman period in the encaustic Faiyum funerary portraits applied to coffins.