Funerary relief for a girl, flanked by her parents ( 330 / 320 BC ); Archaeological Museum of Piraeus.

Funerary relief for Athenian footman Pancahres, likely fell at the battle of Chaeronea.

Funerary relief for Athenian footman Pancahres, likely fell at the battle of Chaeronea.

Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from interment itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honor.

Funerary evidence indicates that the pagan practice of cremation ceased relatively early and jewellery recovered from graves has affinities with Rhenish styles from the Continent, perhaps suggesting close commercial connections with Francia.

The Persian portion of Louvre contains work from the archaic period, like the Funerary Head and the Persian Archers of Darius I.

* c. 1600 BC – 1550 BC —" Mask of Agamemnon " Funerary mask, from the royal tombs at Mycenae, Greece, is made.

* c. 750 BC – 700 BC — Funerary Vase ( Krater ), from the Dipylon Cemetery, Athens, is made.

Funerary stele from the 1st century BC.

As for the Year 27 hieratic graffito at Horemheb's Funerary temple at Medinet Habu and the Year 59 date from the inscription of Mes, Van Dijk argues that the first date likely inaugurated a statue of Horemheb during Year 27 of Ramesses II or III in Horemheb's temple while the latter date of Mes " can hardly be taken seriously, and indeed is not taken at face value by even the staunchest supporters of a long reign " for Horemheb since there was no standard Egptian practise of including the years of all the rulers between Amenhotep III and Horemheb as Wolfgang Helck makes clear.

Funerary vase from the necropolis of Lucentum ( the Ancient Rome | Roman name for Alicante, Valencian Community | València, Spain ).

* Funerary paraphernalia from the Tomba di Ignoti ( Tomb of Unknown ) from the Old Kingdom

Funerary statue of Ama ' alay dhu-Dharah ' il from Hayd ibn Aqil ( ancient Saudi Arabia )

The apse, from 1504, houses a Funerary Chapel of Ludovico II, work by Antoine Le Moiturier ( 1425 – 74 ) covered with green stone and characterized by an elegant play of arches and sculptures.

* The Meroitic Funerary Inscriptions from Arminna West.

A version of this image from a second source with a wider field of viewThe old Funerary Station at Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney, now All Saints Church in Ainslie, ACT.

As shown by the painted equestrian Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood and that of Niccolò da Tolentino ( both in Florence Cathedral ), in 15th century Italy the form was associated specifically with condottieri.

File: FuneraryMasksRomanEgypt. jpg | Funerary masks uncovered in Fayoum, 1st century.

( c ) Funerary furniture, for example, coffins in painted terracotta.

Funerary art is art produced in connection with burials, including many kinds of tombs, and objects specially made for burial with a corpse.

* Funerary Monument to Sir John Hawkwood ( c. 1436 ) -

Funerary sites or tumuli were built there during the 8th to 16th centuries.

* c. 2055 BC – 1985 BC: Funerary Stele of Amenemhat I was made.

* c. 2009 BC – 1997 BC: Funerary temple of Mentuhotep III was built.

Funerary amulets were often made in the shape of the Eye of Horus.

* Harris, A. L., ' The Funerary Monuments of Richard Boyle, Earl of Cork ', Church Mons.

* c. 1473 BC – 1458 BC – Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el Bahri is built.

Funerary convoy of King John I.

Funerary statue of an unknown woman, depicted as Ceres holding wheat.

File: Banditaccia Tomba Dei Capitelli. jpg | Funerary home at Banditaccia with couches

File: Populonia-Necropoli etrusca. jpg | Funerary home at Populonia

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

The basic difficulty, I suppose, was in my ultimate inability to feel a burden of sin from which I sought relief.

He got no relief from drink because, though sometimes Precious would buy himself a drink if he went out with us in the evening, he'd leave it on the table untouched.

Alex suppressed those expressions of relief which offered to prevail in his face and escape from his throat ; ;

The two men sat for some time, savoring the pleasure of escape from peril and the relief such escape brings, before they got up and left the hotel, the doctor to go to the conference house and Alex to go to the main post office.

they had also had to generalize it -- to the point, finally, where the illusion of depth and relief became abstracted from specific three-dimensional entities and was rendered largely as the illusion of depth and relief as such: as a disembodied attribute and expropriated property detached from everything not itself.

People who have not been able to get relief from regular medical doctors are especially apt to be taken in by quacks ''.

Although science has given us more effective materials, preparations from anise, castorbean, colchicum, nux vomica, mustard, fennel, and stramonium are familiar to many for the relief of human ailments.

Kennedy opposes any widespread relief from a High Court depletion ruling.

We consume tons of aspirin and tranquilizers and sleeping pills in order to get a moment's relief from the tensions that are tearing us apart.

And Judy sang the lovely old familiar things which seemed, at times, a blessed relief from the way-out compositions of the progressive jazzmen who have dominated these proceedings.

She refolded the letter, replaced it in its envelope, and turned with relief to one from her brother George.

Sweat started out on William's forehead, whether from relief or disquietude he could not tell.

Carved in high relief from a single piece of agate, this extraordinary vase was most likely created in an imperial workshop for a Byzantine emperor.

Farmers were recruited into regiments for this work from August to October — a period of food shortage — under the control of city temple authorities, thus acting as a form of unemployment relief.

In this relief, the two principal figures, the stern and courageous pope and the dismayed and frightened Attila, surge forward from the center into three dimensions.

* Ainia, presumably accompanied Penthesilea to the Trojan War, killed by Achilles ; known only from an Attic terracotta relief fragment.

The most remarkable of his works are Mercury and Ignorance, the Deluge, Pharaoh's Host Drowned in the Red Sea ( after Titian ), the Triumph of Caesar ( after Mantegna ), and Christ retiring from the judgment-seat of Pilate after a relief by Giambologna.

After this, the senior priest ( or bishop ) pours pure olive oil and a small amount of wine into the shrine lamp, and says the " Prayer of the Oil ", which calls upon God to "... sanctify this Oil, that it may be effectual for those who shall be anointed therewith, unto healing, and unto relief from every passion, every malady of the flesh and of the spirit, and every ill ..." Then follow seven series of epistles, gospels, long prayers, Ektenias ( litanies ) and anointings.

The Bahamas offers attractive features to the potential investor: a stable democratic environment, relief from personal and corporate income taxes, timely repatriation of corporate profits, proximity to the U. S. with extensive air and telecommunications links, and a good pool of skilled professional workers.

Fist depicted in Sumerian relief ( in Iraq ) carvings from the 3rd millennium BC, while an ancient Egyptian relief from the 2nd millennium BC depicts both fist-fighters and spectators.