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  2. Roman funerary practices - Wikipedia

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    The bodies of the wealthy deceased were usually inhumed within sarcophagi, but some mausolea include cremation urns. Some late examples combine Christian and traditional "pagan" styles of burial. Many large mausoleums contained indoor crematoria and banks of small, dovecote-like open niches – columbaria – for multiple cremation-urn burials ...

  3. Urn - Wikipedia

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    Funerary urns (also called cinerary urns and burial urns) have been used by many civilizations. After death, corpses are cremated , and the ashes are collected and put in an urn. Pottery urns, dating from about 7000 BC, have been found in an early Jiahu site in China, where a total of 32 burial urns are found, [ 1 ] and another early finds are ...

  4. Columbarium - Wikipedia

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    The San Francisco Columbarium. A columbarium (/ ˌ k ɒ l əm ˈ b ɛər i. əm /; [1] pl. columbaria), also called a cinerarium, is a structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns holding cremated remains of the dead.

  5. Chinese funeral rituals - Wikipedia

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    Dà liàn (大殮) is the ritual of transferring the body of deceased into the coffin (入木 rù mù), which will rest in the funeral hall decorated with four-character idioms (成语 cheng yu) prior to the burial or cremation. [13] Before the funeral procession, the jiā jì (家祭) is held.

  6. Cremation - Wikipedia

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    Cremation is a method of final disposition of a dead body through burning. [1] Cremation may serve as a funeral or post-funeral rite and as an alternative to burial. In some countries, including India, Nepal, and Syria, cremation on an open-air pyre is an ancient tradition. Starting in the 19th century, cremation was introduced or reintroduced ...

  7. Thousands of Pete Rose fans pay respects during 14-hour ... - AOL

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    Seven hours into the event, more than 1,500 people had come to the visitation, according to a Reds spokesperson. Fans could pass by an urn containing Rose's ashes and a table with various ...