Definitionn. the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
Last update: September 20, 2015
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Next come the various kinds of inhumation graves, the most important of which are rock-hewn chambers, many of which contain well-preserved paintings of various periods; some show close kinship to archaic Greek art, while others are more recent, and one, the Grotta del Tifone (so called from the typhons, or winged genii of death, represented) in which Latin as well as Etruscan inscriptions appear, belongs perhaps to the middle of the 4th century B.C. Fine sarcophagi from these tombs, some showing traces of painting, are preserved in the municipal museum, and also numerous fine Greek vases, bronzes and other objects. [Please select]
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All the attempts are limited, I repeat, to shallow soundings, which inform the insect of the possibility of inhumation. [Please select]
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All attempts were limited, I repeat, to shallow soundings which informed the insect of the possibility of inhumation. [Please select]
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The hammock of raphia, almost equivalent to the natural network of couch-grass turf, scarcely disturbs the process of inhumation. [Please select]
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These necropoli, in which inhumation appears to have been almost exclusively used, should be divided into two large groups. [Please select]
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The most common method of burial among the mound-builders was by inhumation also, and all the different ways mentioned by Dr. [Please select]
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By INHUMATION in pits, graves, holes in the ground, mounds; cists, and caves. [Please select]
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