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  2. Śarīra - Wikipedia

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    Buddha relics from Kanishka the Great's stupa in Peshawar, Pakistan, now in Mandalay, Burma.Teresa Merrigan, 2005. Śarīra is a generic term referring to Buddhist relics, although in common usage it usually refers to pearl or crystal-like bead-shaped objects that are found among the cremated ashes of Buddhist spiritual masters.

  3. Roman funerary art - Wikipedia

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    Prior to that period, the dead were usually cremated and placed in marble ash chests or ash altars, or were simply commemorated with a grave altar that was not designed to hold cremated remains. Despite being the main funerary custom during the Roman Republic, ash chests and grave altars virtually disappeared from the market only a century ...

  4. Ancient Greek funeral and burial practices - Wikipedia

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    Funeral monuments from the Kerameikos cemetery at Athens. After 1100 BC, Greeks began to bury their dead in individual graves rather than group tombs. Athens, however, was a major exception; the Athenians normally cremated their dead and placed their ashes in an urn. [4]

  5. Roman funerary practices - Wikipedia

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    The ashes were interred either in or next to the cremation site (in which case the funeral place was a bustum) or interred elsewhere, in which case the cremation place was known as ustrinum (plural, ustrina); the deceased could be commemorated both at the ustrinum and the place of ash-burial.

  6. Ancient Roman sarcophagi - Wikipedia

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    Prior to that period, the dead were usually cremated and placed in marble ash chests or ash altars, or were simply commemorated with a grave altar that was not designed to hold cremated remains. Despite being the main funerary custom during the Roman Republic, ash chests and grave altars virtually disappeared from the market only a century ...

  7. Metallica's James Hetfield tattoos ashes of late Motörhead ...

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    Metallica's James Hetfield combined ink and the ashes of cremated Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister for a tattoo tribute on his middle finger.