For this, they said, 10 years were spent, and for the underground chambers on the hill upon which the pyramids stand, which he caused to be made as sepulchral chambers for himself in an island, having conducted thither a channel from the Nile.

It was found that the pyramids were commonly built over sepulchral chambers, containing the remains of bodies, either burned, or buried without being mummified.

It is located close to the town, beside the Seville road, and contains many sepulchral chambers hewn in rock, with niches for the cinerary urns, and occasionally with vestibules containing stone seats ( triclinia ).

To the south-east, in the district known as the Cunelie, are a large number of tombs, known as sesi, similar in character to the nuraghe of Sardinia, though of smaller size, consisting of round or elliptical towers with sepulchral chambers in them, built of rough blocks of lava.

** On the class of rude stone monuments which are commonly called in England cromlechs, and in France dolmens, and are here shown to have been the sepulchral chambers of once-existing mounds.

In the cliffs of the Monte Pineta to the south are other tomb chambers, and to the south again are the curious bas-reliefs called Santoni or Santicelli, mutilated in the 19th century by a peasant proprietor, which appear to be sepulchral also.

Many traces of Roman presence in Dumfriesshire are still to be found ; coins, weapons, sepulchral remains, military earthworks, and roads being among the relics left by their lengthened sojourn in this part of Scotland.

There are, however, only a few pieces of authentic Classical Greek sculpture and sepulchral monuments.

A majority of the inscriptions are on stone, and are sepulchral in content, but several are decrees of one sort or another and some half-dozen texts seem to be in verse, with a stress-based meter and vowel assonance at line end.

A variety of large stones are seen as megaliths, with the most widely known megaliths not being sepulchral.

It is lighted by a row of lights as far as you can see, which shed a veiled light, like sepulchral lamps ; the atmosphere is foggy ; you go along considerable stretches without meeting a soul ; the walls sweat like those of an aqueduct ; the floor moves under your feet like the deck of a vessel ; the steps and voices of the people coming the other way give forth a cavernous sound, and are heard before you see the people, and they at a distance seem like great shadows ; there is, in short, a sort of something mysterious, which without alarming causes in your heart a vague sense of disquiet.

There are sepulchral structures that look like small wooden houses with span roofs.

The ruins of Tyana are at modern Kemerhisar, three miles south of Niğde ; there are remains of a Roman aqueduct and of cave cemeteries and sepulchral grottoes.

The burials of Christian I and Queen Dorothea are marked with a pair of simple stones, as the chapel itself was to be considered their sepulchral monument, while the sepulchral monuments of Christian III and Frederick II dominate the lower floor.

of Tahert are the sepulchral monuments known as the Jedars.

But at the time sepulchral brasses were most often fashioned, the eastern counties of England were a center of commercial activity and wealth, and there are numerous engraved memorials of civilians and prosperous merchants in the churches of Ipswich, Norwich, Lynn and Lincoln.

Its sepulchral monuments, many of which are figured by Hocker, Heilsbronnischer Antiquitätenschatz ( Ansbach, 1731-1740 ), are of exceptionally high artistic interest.

In the Qabr-er-Rumia -- " grave of the Roman lady ," " Roman " being used by the Arabs to designate strangers of Christian origin — the Madghacen, and the Jedars, Algeria possesses a remarkable series of sepulchral monuments.

When the sepulchral chamber was opened in 1873 by Bauchetet, a French engineer officer, clear evidence was found that at some remote period the tomb had been rifled and an attempt made to destroy it by fire.

It was recorded around 1847 by Henry Crozier who described it as a " voe or sepulchral chamber ".

The dual sepulchral and heavenly symbolism was adopted by early Christians in both the use of domes in architecture and in the ciborium, a domical canopy like the baldachin used as a ritual covering for relics or the church alter.

According to tradition, Paul's body was buried two miles away from the place of his martyrdom, in the sepulchral area along the Ostiense Way, which was owned by a Christian woman named Lucina.

His grave is marked by a piece of sepulchral statuary executed by his son, William Wetmore Story.

Composers have often used the contrabassoon to comical or sinister effect by taking advantage of its clumsiness and its sepulchral rattle, respectively.

* Canon William Greenwell-British Barrows: a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England ; together with description of figures of skulls, general remarks on prehistoric crania, and an appendix by George Rolleston.

From below, there is a series of smooth fillets ( the one on the left is a Roman-epoch and fragmentary epigraph with the letters AE PONT, while in the centre there is a mat decorated with dolphins and a Roman-age flower, probably coming from a sepulchral building ), then there is a median fillet with a series of six round arches supported, on the left side, by little circular columns and on the right side, by little octagonal columns.

She induced the most eminent Greek rhetoricians to proclaim his praise in their oratory ; and to perpetuate his memory she built at Halicarnassus a celebrated majestic monument, listed by Antipater of Sidon as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and whose name subsequently became the generic term for any splendid sepulchral monument ( mausoleum, Greek: μαυσωλεῖον ).

For successive generations the family lived by the carving of busts and sepulchral monuments, and from the condition of mechanics rose to that of artists.

Cardinal Carpi is interred in Rome at Santa Trinità dei Monti, above the Spanish Steps, where there is a sepulchral monument erected to his memory by Pope Pius V.

It was built in 1407 with money bequeathed by Albinus de Enderby, who died in that year, and is commemorated on a sepulchral slab.

It was a short vine wood staff, hence the name, about the size of a cane and is often prominently featured on sepulchral monuments for dead or missing centurios as a sign of their dignity.

A Roman boundary ditch and posthole has been found just off Nethergate Street ; a strap fitting, coins, sepulchral urns and a bronze figurine of Mercury or a dancing boy have been unearthed in various locations.

The art of occasional poetry had been cultivated in Greece from an early period — less, however, as the vehicle of personal feeling than as the recognized commemoration of remarkable individuals or events, on sepulchral monuments and votive offerings: Such compositions were termed epigrams, i. e. inscriptions.

History leaves us in darkness as to the origin of the Furia gens ; but, from sepulchral inscriptions found at Tusculum, we see that the name Furius was very common at that place, and hence it is generally inferred that the Furia gens, like the Fulvia, had come from Tusculum.

Roubiliac was largely employed for portrait busts, and from the 1740s especially for sepulchral monuments, in essence the two outlets for free-standing sculpture in Britain at the time.

The name appears to be derived from the Etruscan Lecne, which frequently occurs on Etruscan sepulchral monuments.

As of 2012, the National Kidney Foundation is currently running a deficit of $ 5 million which paints a sepulchral picture as it suffers from the pernicious ramifications of the slowdown in economy.

The Crag of the Ghouls is a rugged cliff in the Peaks of Thok from which the ghouls of deeper dreamland pitch the leftover bones of their sepulchral feasts.

Trying to make the best of it, the guests must deal with their sepulchral host, Horace Femm, who claims to be on the run from the police, and his religious, obsessive, malevolent sister, Rebecca.

Ancient ruins found nearby include a sepulchral monument dedicated to Postumia Vittorina, a milestone of the Imperator Septimius Severus period and a stone altar dedicated to Lord Mithras.

On the inner side of the Cathedral façade he built the sepulchral stone of his brother.

Monumental brass is a species of engraved sepulchral memorial which in the early part of the 13th century began to partially take the place of three-dimensional monuments and effigies carved in stone or wood.