Word Finder - urns

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A vase with a footed base.

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A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.

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A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.

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Any place of burial; the grave.

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A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a half, wine measure. It was half the amphora, and four times the congius.

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A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.

Some are like urns or cups, others lenticular.

In west Prussia the urns with human faces deserve notice.

Among the places where these have been found, special mention should be made of the large cremation cemetery at Borgstedterfeld, between Rendsburg and EckernfOrde, which has yielded many urns and brooches closely resembling those found in heathen graves in England.

The pottery is all "hand-made," and the bulk of the objects excavated are cinerary urns, usually found full of burnt bones.

There is also the Casuccini collections of Etruscan sarcophagi, sepulchral urns and pottery.

From the number of urns, coins and other antiquities found near Hanau it would appear that it owes its origin to a Roman settlement.

The other urns on this side were placed by Malatesta's successors, and the arches on the left wall remained untenanted.

Duff House, the Fife Gates Pair of polished ashlar octagonal gatepiers with molded stepped caps supporting fine carved stone urns.

One of the burial urns contained only the burnt ear bones of an infant - was this a strange sacrifice?

However, after the grave is full for coffined burial cremated remains caskets or urns may still be buried within the grave.

We have a number of different urns or ashes caskets for you to keep the ashes in at home.

Hard landscaping details such as steps, balustrades, pond copings, statuary and urns should be conserved.

The urns are often reduced with no visible temper, and often have stamped and incised decoration (lines scratched into the surface ).

Three coarseware cinerary urns containing cremated bones and also two small flagons.

Large decorative urns that once graced the roof parapet in the early 1900s, disappeared long ago.

They are complemented by a colorful and varied selection of terracotta planters pots, umbrella pots, vases and urns.

Also on display are the fragment of a sarcophagus, different kinds of urns and several grave steles.

Columbarium A building, sometimes at least partly underground, whose walls are full of niches for funerary urns.

Two cremations were found in large collared urns on either side of the barrow.

The barrow contains two urns, found about 4 ft. apart, at a depth of 4ft.

A view down a path lined with ornamental urns, with a lawn to the left and trees to the right.

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The spa waters were and still are available to visitors, dispensed by tap from elaborate marble urns.

In the first period (Italic) cremation burials closely approximating to the Villanova type are found; in the second 1 (Venetian) the tombs are constructed of blocks of stone, and situlae (bronze buckets), sometimes decorated with elaborate designs, are frequently used to contain the cinerary urns; in the third (Gallic), which begins during the 4th centilry B.C., though cremation continues, the tombs are much poorer, the ossuaries being of badly baked rough clay, and show traces of Gallic influence, and characteristics of the La-Tene civilization.

The local museum contains a valuable and important collection of objects from the necropolis, including some specially fine bucchero, sepulchral urns of travertine, alabaster and terra-cotta, painted vases, stone cippi with reliefs, &c.

Stone - Stone urns are normally molded from reconstituted stone.

They are entombed in the urns and sepulchers of mortality !

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Terracotta urns or Tuscan pottery can be displayed as convenient utensil holders or serve as added decoration.

Urns and containers made of bronze or copper also fit nicely in a Mediterranean room.

Terra cotta pottery, including urns, bowls and vases are a standard element in Mediterranean style decorating and that includes French country decor.

Terra cotta pottery, including urns, bowls and vases are a standard element in Mediterranean style decorating and that includes French country décor.

Urns of potted poinsettias or mums can define the outdoor space and even create an aisle for guests to walk along.

The site sells pet headstones and Urns, but they also have a wonderful selection of Christmas ornaments that are sure to please.

Stone urns or formal planters suit the traditional style.

Funeral homes must accept caskets and urns from other sources and cannot force clients to purchase these items directly through the funeral home.

A number of different styles of pet cremation urns are available.

Urns on Sale sells a few styles of pet caskets.

Our products include pet grave markers, pet urns, custom pet portraits and drawings (some incorporate the ashes in the oils and acrylics), pet keepsake boxes, pet memorial jewelry, blankets, and engraved glass pieces.

All About Pet Urns offers more than their name implies.

Along with a variety of pet cremation urns, they also offer pet caskets in a few different styles, materials and sizes.

Pet Loss Support Page is a website that can help you to locate wholesalers of pet caskets, urns and other pet memorial products.

A variety of manufacturers make pet memorials such as jewelry, monuments, cremation urns, pet grave markers, garden stones, art objects and more.

Add hanging outdoor candle lanterns and hooks along pathways, to outdoor floral urns, dangling from trees, or along the edges of the reception site for more romantic lighting.

The aurochs (Bos urns) appears to exist still in the forests of the western Caucasus.

In Der Kampf urns Dasein am Himmel von Prel endeavoured to apply the Darwinian doctrine of organic evolution not only to the sphere of consciousness but also even more widely as the philosophical principle of the world.

The people met, not as usual in the Pnyx, but in the Agora, in the presence of the Archons, and recorded their votes by placing in urns small fragments of pottery (which in the ancient world served the purpose of waste-paper) (ostraca) on which they wrote the name of the person whom they wished to banish.

Their craftsmanship is proved by the large cinerary urns, by the jugs with wide, deeply ribbed, scientifically fixed handles, and by vessels and vases as elegant in form and light in weight as any that have been since produced at Murano.

A large number of the inscriptions are painted upon the tiles which closed the niches containing the cinerary urns.

The urns themselves are small, often of terra-cotta, originally painted, though the majority of them have lost their colour, and rectangular in shape.