EditorialThe cremation of Dr. Philip Incao at the country’s only public open-air funeral pyre, in his adopted hometown of Crestone, Colo., March 5, 2022. (Trent Davis Bailey/The New York Times)
EditorialMallory Greene holds one of the urns offered by her direct-to-consumer cremation startup, Eirene at Bayview Cemetery in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, Jan. 13, 2022. (Nathan Cyprys/The New York Times)
EditorialDeath of the Woman of Sestos, from Pliny's Natural History, Book 10, ch. 6; below: inscription listing animals featured in a series of hunting images, and list of clothing items, Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 15231605, Pen and ink, bru...
EditorialBiconical urn with lid bowl, clay, hand-modeled, fired (pottery), clay, part (vessel): Height: 43.5 cm; Diameter: 22 cm; Mouth diameter: 18.7 cm; Base diameter: 13 cm, pottery, ornaments, meanders, antiquity, The handmade biconical impasto urn with a s...
EditorialVanity Fair - Doctors and Scientists. 'Cremation'. Sir Henry Thompson. 1 August 1874, Carlo Pellegrini, 18391889, Italian, 1874, Chromolithograph.
EditorialLa Tene urn filled with burnt bones. Knurled edge, smooth shoulder and rough outer surface. Contains cremation residues. Many glues and additions., Urn, earthenware, h: 23 cm, diam: 22.5 cm, prehistory -800.
EditorialPunic? True 'jug' with an ear. Linear decoration. With cremation residues. Punic? Ware one-handled jar. Painted bands., Vase, jug, urn, earthenware, Punic, 19.5 cm, Punic -800.
EditorialDouble conical urn of earthenware with a vertical edge and an earpiece just above the belly cage, which reaches up to the neck base by a frame. Exactly the same pot in the urn field at Wedderveer. Vertical burst of 6.5 cm from the edge, cracking in the...
EditorialGermanic pot with serrated edge. Part of the edge and wall is missing, old unstable glueing and additions, 2 separate shards. Contains cremation residues (molars)., Urn, earthenware, h: 20.2 cm, diam: 18.5 cm, prehistory -800.
EditorialUrn of earthenware, surface smooth, sandblasted with shards, decorated with nail impressions, reddish brown, with cremation residues. Old bonding, chips from the edge, approx. 6 vertical cracks from the edge, urn, earthenware, h: 28 cm, diam: 25.5 cm, ...
EditorialRough-walled urn with lid channel. Old bonding and supplementing. Contains cremation residues., Urn, earthenware (Frankish), h: 11 cm, diam: 11.3 cm, lmec 500-900 AD, The Netherlands, Gelderland, Wageningen, Wageningen, grave 127.
EditorialYellowish pottery pottery. Remains of a sticker. Filled with human bones (stuck), bee pot, earthenware, organsich, cremation residues, h: 4,8 cm, diam: 5 cm, prehistory -1200.
EditorialSaxon bulturn with rim, plump round shape, undecorated. Old, unstable bonding and additions, loose fragments, missing part of the top edge. Contains cremation residues., Pot, earthenware (Hessens-Schortens), h: 20.5 cm, diam: 22 cm, vmeb 480-550 AD, Ne...
EditorialPot of earthenware with smeared wall, smooth neck and unadorned edge, so-called Haupstedter Rautopf, with cremation. Reddish-brown, piece of rim with plaster topped., Urn, earthenware, h: 20,1 cm, diam: 19,5 cm, prehistory -800.
EditorialCome on foot with a rad-temple decoration. Surface damaged. Contains cremation residues., Pot, earthenware (Mayen?), H: 10.4 cm, diam: 14.8 cm, vmeb 525-725 AD, The Netherlands, Gelderland, Wageningen, Wageningen.
EditorialCremation of Jujaka's Body(?): Scene from Vessantara Jataka, Thailand, 19th20th century, Thailand, Color on paper, 52 x 27in. (132.1 x 68.6cm), Paintings.
EditorialThe cremation of Sariputta. The funeral pyre of Sariputta with his mother grieving (on left); the Buddha preaching at a temple (on right). The Life of the Buddha. Burma, c,1800-1820. Source: Or. 14298, f.4. Language: Burmese.
EditorialDecorated bronze mirror, Iron Age, 50 BC-50 AD. The pattern on the back can be interpreted as an abstract or hidden face. In parts of the pattern, lines were made at right angles to each other to make a prominent 'basket-weave' effect. The back of bron...
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