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  2. Urn - Wikipedia

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    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 in Laoguantai, Shaanxi. [2] There are about 700 burial urns unearthed over the Yangshao (5000–3000 BC) areas and consisting more than 50 varieties of form and shape. The burial ...

  3. 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.

  4. Japodian burial urns - Wikipedia

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    These cremation urns where the cremated remains of the dead were placed in, were beautifully decorated with figurative designs of humans and animals. The Japodian burial urn art was a unique form of art influenced to a degree by the Situla art of northern Illyria and Italy and by Greek art. The urns represent one of the best Japodian figurative ...

  5. Aging Japan: Unclaimed burial urns pile up in Japan amid ...

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    (This story removes stray letters from first paragraph) By Kaori Kaneko YOKOSUKA, Japan (Reuters) - Unclaimed urns containing ashes of the dead are piling up by the thousands across Japan ...

  6. Grave goods - Wikipedia

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    Because of their ritual context, grave goods may represent a special class of artifacts, in some instances produced especially for burial. Artwork produced for the burial itself is known as funerary art, while grave goods in the narrow sense are items produced for actual use that are placed in the grave, but in practice the two categories overlap.

  7. Neptune Society - Wikipedia

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    In 2003, it was reported that an $11.5 million deal proposed by the firm of Walt Disney’s great-nephew to buy Neptune Society was called off. [6] In June 2011, Service Corporation International announced it had purchased control by buying a 70 percent share of the company. At that time, the company's annual revenues were more than $55 million ...

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