The funerary cult surrounding this monument, well known in the New Kingdom, was still functioning several generations after its establishment at the temple, leading some scholars to suggest that it may have contained the royal burial chamber of the pharaoh himself.

It is estimated that more than seven hundred statues of Sekhmet once stood in one funerary temple alone, that of Amenhotep III, on the west bank of the Nile.

The northern ( funerary / mortuary ) temple was on the north side of the pyramid and faced the north stars, which the king wished to join in eternity.

He built important additions to the temples at Luxor and Karnak, and his funerary temple and administrative complex at Medinet-Habu is amongst the largest and best-preserved in Egypt ; however, the uncertainty of Ramesses ' times is apparent from the massive fortifications which were built to enclose the latter.

This temple complex was located just north of the original funerary temple of Amenhotep III which had been built on a flood plain.

Hence, Ay's precise reign length is unknown and he could have ruled for as long as 7 to 9 years since most of his monuments and his funerary temple at Medinet Habu were either destroyed or usurped by his successor, Horemheb.

However, several 6th dynasty royal seals and stone blocks — the latter of which were found within the funerary temple of Queen Ankhesenpepi II, the known mother of Pepi II — were discovered in the 1999 / 2000 excavation season at Saqqara which demonstrate that she also married Merenre after Pepi I's death and became this king's chief wife.

The funerary cult surrounding his ' House of Millions of Years of Shoshenq, Beloved of Amun ' was functioning several generations after its establishment at the temple ( Ibrahem Aly Sayed 1996, p. 14 ).

The royal statues inside of the temple were then moved into the nearby funerary temple of Mentuhotep II.

The length of his reign is indicated by a wine jar inscribed with the king's prenomen found in Amenhotep II's funerary temple at Thebes ; it is dated to this king's highest known date — his Year 26 — and lists the name of the pharaoh's vintner, Panehsy.

A great deal of information has been unearthed by recent archaeology, including the Anglo-Saxon Sutton Hoo royal funerary site in East Anglia and the royal temple at Gefren / Yeavering in Northumberland.

One of the documents is a letter from Djedkare to the temple priests provisioning Neferirkare's funerary temple.

Several other 18th dynasty rulers built temples for the same purpose, the best known being those at Deir el-Bahari, where Hatshepsut built beside the funerary temple of Mentuhotep II, and that of Amenhotep III, of which the only major extant remains are the Colossi of Memnon.

: " construction of his own pyramid complex and two small complexes Lepsius no. XXIV and no. XXV for his wives ,... the completion of the unfinished funerary monuments of his direct relatives Neferirkara, Khentkhaus II and Neferefra " as well as the completion of this king's substantial sun temple building complex at Abu Gurab.

In the late nineteenth century, a number of Western museums acquired collections of fragmentary papyri from the administrative ( temple ) records of one Abusir funerary cult, that of king Neferirkare Kakai.

They also used the white lotus in funerary garlands, temple offerings and female adornment.

On the East side of the city, funerary temple and chapel were laid out.

The wake of Hiroaki Shukuzawa was held there on June 22, 2006, and a memorial to popular rock musician Hideto Matsumoto, better known as hide, can be found in the main hall itself, as the temple was the site of the musician's funerary ceremony in 1998.

Some funerary fields were located in this particular area and A. Meuwese mentions that a small “ heathen ” temple supposedly stood at a past bend in the Aa River, but it had been swallowed by the river.

Amenemhet III from his funerary temple ( Cairo Museum )

The color of the lamps varies by jurisdiction ; typical colors are blue and / or red for police, fire, and medical-emergency vehicles ; amber for tow trucks, security personnel, and construction vehicles ; green for volunteer firefighters, and violet for funerary vehicles.

The Greek tradition of epigrams began as poems inscribed on votive offerings at sanctuariesincluding statues of athletesand on funerary monuments, for example " Go tell it to the Spartans, passersby ...".

Many " sympotic " epigrams combine sympotic and funerary elementsthey tell their readers ( or listeners ) to drink and live for today because life is short.

Thus, for example, the funerary god Anubis was portrayed as a jackal, a creature whose scavenging habits threatened the preservation of the body, in an effort to counter this threat and employ it for protection.

As this funerary monument was erected before the traditional date given for the death of King Midas in the early 7th century BC, it is now generally thought to have covered the burial of his father.

Apparently not the least embarrassed by this turnabout, the Medici later came back to Michelangelo with another grand proposal, this time for a family funerary chapel in the Basilica of San Lorenzo.

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

In Phrygia a number of funerary stone inscriptions use the term Chrestians, with one stone inscription using both terms together, reading: " Chrestians for Christians ".

St. Efthymiadis and J. M. Featherstone, " Establishing a holy lineage: Theodore the Stoudite's funerary catechism for his mother ( BHG 2422 )," in M. Grünbart, ed., Theatron: rhetorische Kultur in Spätantike und Mittelalter (= Millennium-Studien 13 ) ( Berlin, 2007 ), pp. 13 – 51.

The new king performs funerary rites for his father and gives food offerings to sustain him — often including the Eye of Horus, which in this instance represents life and plenty.

The opening of the mouth ceremony, a key funerary ritual, performed for Tutankhamun by his successor Ay.

In later Republican religious tradition, a Quirinal priest ( flamen ) impersonated Romulus ( by then deified as Quirinus ) to perform funerary rites for his foster mother ( identified as Dia ).

Boullee's Cenotaph for Isaac Newton is a funerary monument celebrating a figure interred elsewhere.

From 1425 – 1427, Donatello collaborated with Michelozzo on the funerary monument of the Antipope John XXIII for the Battistero in Florence.

In 1427, he completed in Pisa a marble panel for the funerary monument of Cardinal Rainaldo Brancacci at the church of Sant ' Angelo a Nilo in Naples.

In the 10th century, Persian explorer Ahmad ibn Rustah described funerary rights for the Rus included the sacrifice of a young female slave.

In ancient Greece, mint was used in funerary rites, together with rosemary and myrtle, and not simply to offset the smell of decay ; mint was an element in the fermented barley drink called the kykeon that was an essential preparatory entheogen for participants in the Eleusinian mysteries, which offered hope in the afterlife for initiates.

The flamen Quirinalis acted in the role of Romulus ( deified as Quirinus ) to perform funerary rites for his foster mother.

In Virgil's Aeneid, during a funerary ship race Aeneas gives to Sergestus a Cretan slave girl named Pholoe in gratitude for saving both ship and crew.

The importance of the shrine is attested in this period with payments of food and other goods necessary for the funerary rites of royal and noble dignitaries.

Death was simply a temporary interruption, rather than complete cessation, of life, and that eternal life could be ensured by means like piety to the gods, preservation of the physical form through mummification, and the provision of statuary and other funerary equipment.

He points out that Shrine 261 is not strictly analogous to the Ark of the Covenant: it can only be said that the Anubis Shrine is " ark-like ", constructed of wood, gilded and gessoed, stored within a sacred tomb, " guarding " the treasury of the tomb ( and not the primary focus of that environment ), that it contains compartments within it that store and hold sacred objects, that it has a figure of Anubis on its lid, and that it was carried by two staves permanently inserted into rings at its base and borne by eight priests in the funerary procession to Tutankhamun's tomb.

Another important aspect of the religion was the belief in the afterlife and funerary practices.

Rather artwork was created to symbolize and honor funerary rights, representations of mythological deities or spirits of ancestors, etc.

It was the potters ' quarter of the city, from which the English word " ceramic " is derived, and was also the site of an important cemetery and numerous funerary sculptures erected along the road out of the city towards Eleusis.

Known colloquially under various names – the Pharos of Abusir, the Abusir funerary monument and Burg al-Arab ( Arab's Tower ) – it consists of a 3-story tower, approximately in height, with a square base, an octagonal midsection and cylindrical upper section, like the building upon which it was apparently modelled.

As Tunis was Muslim territory, his body was subject to the process known as mos Teutonicus ( a postmortem funerary custom used in mediæval Europe whereby the flesh was boiled from the body, so that the bones of the deceased could be transported hygienically from distant lands back home.

Archaeological research has revealed that there was a funerary and cult center at Kfar HaHoresh, about two miles ( 3 km ) from current Nazareth, dating back roughly 9000 years to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B era.

It should be pointed out that both explanations were mooted in the 12th century by Geoffrey of Monmouth ( below ), who extolled the curative properties of the stones and was also the first to advance the idea that Stonehenge was constructed as a funerary monument.

The meaning of Blood of Isis is more obscure, but the tyet often was used as a funerary amulet made of red wood, stone, or glass, so this may simply have been a description of the appearance of the materials used.

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

When the body of Charles Stuart was transferred to Saint Peter's Basilica, his " praecordia " were left in Frascati Cathedral: a small urn encloses the heart of Charles, placed beneath the floor below the funerary monument.

Besides what was recovered from KV20 during Howard Carter's clearance of the tomb in 1903, other funerary furniture belonging to Hatshepsut has been found elsewhere, including a lioness " throne " ( bedstead is a better description ), a senet game board with carved lioness-headed, red-jasper game pieces bearing her pharaonic title, a signet ring, and a partial shabti figurine bearing her name.

The Pietàs first home was the Chapel of Santa Petronilla, a Roman mausoleum near the south transept of St. Peter's, which the Cardinal chose as his funerary chapel.