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The Pharos of Abusir, an ancient funerary monument thought to be modelled after the Pharos at Alexandria, with which it is approximately contemporaneous
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.
His bronze funerary monument, now in the basement Treasury of St. Peter's Basilica, like a giant casket of goldsmith's work, is by Antonio Pollaiuolo.
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.
Like the Treasury of Minyas at Orchomenus the tomb had been looted of its contents and its nature as funerary monument had been forgotten.
A late Hellenistic funerary monument erroneously labelled the " Tomb of Theron " is situated just outside the sacred area, and a 1st-century AD heroon ( heroic shrine ) adjoins the 13th century Church of San Nicola a short distance to the north.
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.
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.
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.
The last Second Dynasty king Khasekhemwy was buried in his tomb at Abydos, but also built a funerary monument at Saqqara consisting of a large rectangular enclosure, known as Gisr el-Mudir.
There have been theatrical performances in Stratford-upon-Avon since at least Shakespeare ’ s day, though the first recorded performance of a play by Shakespeare himself was in 1748 when Parson Joseph Greene, master of Stratford grammar school, organised a charitable production to fund the restoration of Shakespeare's funerary monument.
In 1818, the so-called Lion of Chaeronea, a nearly funerary monument erected in honor of the Sacred Band, was rediscovered by English travellers.
On 21 January 1815 Louis XVI and his wife's remains were re-buried in the Basilica of Saint-Denis where in 1816 his brother, King Louis XVIII, had a funerary monument erected by Edme Gaulle.
Between 1465 and 1467 he executed the funerary monument to Cosimo de ' Medici for the crypt under the altar of the same church, and in 1472 he completed the monument to Piero and Giovanni de ' Medici in the Old Sacristy.
The relief for the funerary monument of Francesca Tornabuoni for Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome is now in the Bargello at Florence.
The so-called Apotheosis of Claudius, the top part of an Augustan-era funerary monument that may once have contained Messalla's funerary urn.
Accordingly, the importance of a stupa changed from being a funerary monument to being an object of veneration.
Metropolitan Anthony ( Bloom ) of Sourozh funerary monument, Brompton Cemetery, London
In 1436 the Florentines commissioned of Paolo Uccello a funerary monument, a fresco transferred on canvas, which still stands in the Duomo.
In Babylon, he designed the funerary monument to Alexander's general Hephaestion ( died in 324 BC ), which was described by Diodorus Siculus, Arrian, Strabo, Plutarch and others.

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

funerary and erected
At the suggestion of Themistocles, all of the funerary sculptures were built into the city wall and two large city gates facing north-west were erected in the Kerameikos.
A particular and short-lived type of building, using the same basilican form, was the funerary hall, which was not a normal church, though the surviving examples long ago became regular churches, and they always offered funeral and memorial services, but a building erected in the Constantinian period as an indoor cemetery on a site connected with early Christian martyrs, such as a catacomb.

funerary and before
In 1907, just before his discovery of the tomb of Horemheb, Theodore M. Davis's team uncovered a small site containing funerary artifacts with Tutankhamun's name.
The site was in use before Ramesses had the first stone put in place: beneath the hypostyle hall, modern archaeologists have found a shaft tomb from the Middle Kingdom, yielding a rich hoard of religious and funerary artifacts.
The most famous example of funerary literature is that of the ancient Egyptians, whose Book of the Dead was buried with the deceased to guide him or her through the various trials that would be encountered before being allowed into the underworld.
Although mostly only ruins of brick and rammed earth walls and towers from ancient China ( i. e. before the 6th century AD ) have survived, information on ancient Chinese architecture ( especially wooden architecture ) can be discerned from more or less realistic clay models of buildings created by the ancient Chinese as funerary items.
They are apparently funerary vases produced for children who died before they could marry.

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