noun
definition
A small receptacle for sacred utensils carried in festivals in Ancient Greece.
Examples of cist in a Sentence
A tumulus and cist graves were dug containing weapons, fibulae, and pottery of sub-Mycenaean type like that previously found at Theotoku.
After the burial the cist was covered in with earth.
The chamber, no longer regarded as a habitation to be tenanted by the deceased, became simply a cist for the reception of the urn which held his ashes.
The white and calcined bones were then picked out of the ashes by the friends and placed in a metallic urn, which was deposited in a hollow grave or cist and covered over with large well-fitting stones.
These type of chambered Bronze Age cist burials are known as segmented cists.
The pit containing the cist was markedly deeper than the individual graves.
Each had a stone cist at the center which held a cremation burial.
He dug a trench and found a cist that had already been opened and cleaned of contents.
Presumably, this stone is all that remains of an excavated cist.
The skull was excavated from cist no.1 and is an example of a Bronze Age short cist within a cairn.
Following this industrial archeology, phase B is a Bronze Age cairn with a central cist.
The second of these burials may have removed an earlier stone-lined cist.
In the process of uncovering the exposed cist, a second cist was found.
The hollow near the center is probably the site of a robbed burial cist.
In the latter case, if the tumulus of stones covers a megalithic cist or a sepulchral chamber with a passage leading into it from the outside, it is often called a dolmen.