EditorialThe executioner leads the prince to a burning pyre. Sinbadnama, the Story of Sinbad, in an anonymous Persian version, with 72 miniatures. c.1575. Source: I.O. ISLAMIC 3214, f.74v. Language: Persian.
EditorialPrince Daniyal trying to persuade the maiden to leave the funeral pyre. Suz u Gudaz by Nau'i, the story of a Hindu princess who followed her lover to the funeral pyre. c.1630. Opaque watercolour. Source: Or. 2839, f.17v.
EditorialMourners gather around the funeral pyre as Rakesh Kumar Yadav is cremated in Dhamaura, Nepal, on April 13, 2022. (Saumya Khandelwal/The New York Times)
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)
EditorialThe rite of sati. A woman is seated in the midst of a funeral pyre, her husband's body beside her; two crowds of people attend on either side. In the distant landscape, the funeral procession is seen approaching the site. Lucknow, c.1780. Tinted drawin...
EditorialSinhalese funeral pyre. Relatives place the corpse on a pyre in front of a priest and a man with an urn of water. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind," Augsburg, 1804. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm...
EditorialIndian suttee ritual: a widow holding instruments falls onto her husband's burning funeral pyre. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind," Augsburg, 1804. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was ...
EditorialVirginian chief's funeral pyre, with his corpse and his ancestors, laid over a fire tended by a priest day and night. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind," Augsburg, 1804. Gottlieb Tobias Wil...
EditorialDeath of the Assyrian king Sardanapalus on a funeral pyre of aromatic woods along with his gold, concubines and eunochs. Woodcut engraving by Lambert from Eugene Rimmel's The Book of Perfumes, London, Chapman and Hall, 1865.
EditorialPhoenix on a Pyre Looking at the Sun [reverse]. Dated: c. 1485. Dimensions: overall (diameter): 6.15 cm (2 7/16 in.) gross weight: 85.93 gr (0.189 lb.) axis: 7:00. Medium: bronze//Later cast.