Gone, for instance, is an urn filled with ashes that archivists returned to the donor who pressed it upon the library.
His casket is an urn nestled inside a cardboard box and, later, a plastic shopping bag, and his funeral chariot is a borrowed Mercedes-Benz sedan.
To the right is an urn which holds the remains of Agustín de Iturbide, who briefly ruled Mexico in the 19th century.
Pairs of coins are sometimes found in burials, including cremation urns; among the collections of the British Museum is an urn from Athens, ca. 300 BC, that contained cremated remains, two obols, and a terracotta figure of a mourning siren.
The genus Ficus is characterized by its unique enclosed inflorescence, the syconium, which is an urn-shaped receptacle that contains tens to thousands flowers.
The Bios Urn is a biodegradable urn made from coconut shell, compacted peat and cellulose and the seed of a tree.
"There should be an urn, too.
"It might be an urn or a Christmas tree.
If there's an urn it's not porn – that's a Discworld cliché," he says, a bubble of laughter in his voice.
What if that had been an urn full of heroin instead of human remains that they so recklessly snorted?
