Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Coemeterium (Latin for "cemetery", from the Ancient Greek, κοιμητήριον, koimeterion = "bedroom, resting place") was originally a free-standing, multi-roomed gravesite in Early Christianity. Bodies were buried in wall niches and under the floor.
The Catacombs of Milos are an ancient underground Christian cemetery located on the island of Milos in the Cyclades, Greece, dating to the 1st-5th century AD. [1]The catacombs are found near the modern settlement of Trypiti, next to the site of the agora of the ancient city of Melos and 200 m to the east of the ancient theatre.
It is believed that either the Dipylon inscription or the Nestor's Cup is the oldest known alphabetic Greek inscription. The Nestor Cup, which also bears a verse inscription, was found in an excavation at the ancient Greek colony of Pithekoussai, on the island of Ischia, in Italy. It is thought to be of equal age with the Dipylon inscription or ...
Ancient Greek funerary practices are attested widely in literature, the archaeological record, and in ancient Greek art. Finds associated with burials are an important source for ancient Greek culture , though Greek funerals are not as well documented as those of the ancient Romans .
Dipylon cemetery, Kerameikos, Athens, Greece Kerameikos The Grave Stele of Dexileos is the stele of the tomb of an Athenian cavalryman named Dexileos ( Ancient Greek : Δεξίλεως ) who died in the Corinthian War against Sparta in 394 BC.
The Third Cemetery of Athens (Greek: Τρίτο Νεκροταφείο Αθηνών, Tríto Nekrotafeío Athinón) is a cemetery located in the Aspra Chomata district of Nikaia. [1] It is located at the junction of Thebes and Petros Ralli avenues and its central entrance is on Kavkasou street.
The word cemetery (from Greek κοιμητήριον ' sleeping place ') [1] [2] implies that the land is specifically designated as a burial ground and originally applied to the Roman catacombs. [3] The term graveyard is often used interchangeably with cemetery, but a graveyard primarily refers to a burial ground within a churchyard. [4] [5]
Zeitenlik (Greek: Ζέιτενλικ, Serbian Cyrillic: Зејтинлик) is an Allied military cemetery and World War I memorial park in Thessaloniki, the largest military cemetery in Greece. It contains the graves of circa 20,000 Serbian , French , British , Italian , Russian and Greek soldiers and Bulgarian POWs , who died in the battles ...