Funerary in a sentence

Canova harmonized its design with the older Baroque funerary monuments in the basilica. citation In 1790, he began to work on a funerary monument for Titian, which was eventually abandoned by 1795.

But, for the most part, there was a standard format for imperial funerals in Rome, first established for the last rites of Augustus, in 14 C.E., and based on the distinctive funerary traditions of the old republican élite.

To Esarey, who earlier in his career had excavated some of the human remains and pulled out funerary objects to put on display, it was the bittersweet dismantling of a world he helped build.

His remains must be repatriated through the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, the federal law regulating the return of Native American ancestral remains and funerary objects, she said.

However, some males were also found buried with their feet in wooden buckets, suggesting it may have been part of funerary rituals.

Inside the tomb of an ancient Maya king, researchers have discovered a variety of noteworthy funerary offerings, including a mosaic jade mask.

Could enough people get past that to make NOR a viable funerary option?

Despite repeated attempts by affiliated tribes to return the collection to New Mexico, the funerary objects remain at the Weisman.

Our funerary monuments tell us as much.

Ytalo Rodrigues, a 20-year-old driver for a funerary service provider in Manaus, said he had retrieved one body after another for more than 36 hours, without a break.

But this funerary statue would have initially appeared here as shining bronze, said Noëmi Daucé, chief curator at the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

Clark Tenakhongva, vice chairman of the Hopi Tribe, said the tribes hope to receive the collection by early next year and would work to ensure funerary items are buried with the remains in the general area where they were taken, accompanied by a ceremony.

It was also the site of ceremonies connected to the King of France, including royal funerary processions and the royal entry, a ceremony in which the city received a new king.

The climax of funerary rites is ‘eyie’, which is a contraction of the Akan expression, ‘aye yi ye,’ to wit, ‘to praise’.

Ancient Roman relief carving of a midwife However, in the Roman West, our knowledge of practicing midwives comes mainly from funerary epitaphs.

An Egyptian funerary inscription of 1430 BC records that the warrior Amenhotep (Amenophis) II was also renowned for his feats of oarsmanship.

As a funerary deity, she was associated with Osiris, lord of the underworld, and was considered his wife.

Baptisteries commonly adopted centralised plan forms derived from funerary chapels; and are invariably separate from the congregational basilica.

By the early Middle Kingdom (c. 2055–1650 BCE), non-royal Egyptians believed that they, too, could overcome death as Osiris had, by worshipping him and receiving the funerary rites that were partly based on his myth.

Cf. Verdenius, p. 64. It can also refer to a funerary jar.