Sentence examples for on funerary from inspiring English sources

In Yangshao pottery, emphasis was on funerary wares.

There is a section on funerary beliefs connected with mummification.

Silhouettes drawn on funerary slabs depict feasts and beasts (mythical and actual) and historic scenes.

Here are a bunch of grey clay lumps, paint daubed here and there into their gnarly surfaces, like the mould on funerary statues in overgrown cemeteries.

Yalom, a cultural historian who has also written zippy histories of the breast and the chess queen, includes some chapters on funerary history and current trends (video headstones!), brimming with interesting anecdotes.

As symbols of life and immortality, plants such as the vine of the Greco-Roman and the Christian world and the haoma (a trance-inducing or intoxicating plant) of pre-Islamic Iran are planted near tombs or represented on funerary stelae, tombstones, and sarcophagi.

Anne's parade, which was started in 1974 by three local characters, Henri Schindler, Paul Poche and Mr. Newlin, and took on a funerary quality during the worst years of the AIDS epidemic, when marchers would carry the ashes of friends and tip them into the Mississippi.

Beginning with the Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom, works of funerary literature written on tomb walls, and later on coffins, and papyri placed within tombs, were designed to protect and nurture souls in their afterlife.

Of the three ancient Egyptian structures on the site, one, the funerary temple of King Mentuhotep II (built c. 1970 bce), has lost much of its superstructure.

It is quite historical for a blockbuster, short on gold and long on elegant funerary statues.

As with most New Kingdom temples, the mural decorations on the outer walls of funerary temples, including that at Madīnat Habu, dealt mainly with the military campaigns of the king, while the inner scenes were mostly of ritual significance.