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[22] [23] Inside the casket was one single bone fragment nearly one inch long, and seven beads made up of precious stones and metals. [24] The box attributed to Moggallana contained a slightly smaller steatite casket made up of a slightly softer substance. Inside the casket were two bone fragments, the larger one being nearly half an inch long ...
Morgan Casket, 11th–12th centuries, Southern Italy, ivory The Becket Casket, about 1180–90, Limoges enamel, France, V&A Museum no. M.66-1997. This is a list of individual caskets with articles: Shinkot casket, 2nd century BC, Buddhist container for reliquaries, Gandhara, stone; Bajaur casket, 5–6 AD, Gandhara (now Pakistan), stone reliquary
A casket [1] is a decorative box or container that is usually smaller than a chest and is typically decorated. In recent centuries they are often used as boxes for jewelry, but in earlier periods they were also used for keeping important documents and many other purposes. [2] Many ancient caskets are reliquaries, for both Buddhist and Christian ...
Pope Francis has opted to be buried in a wooden casket when he is laid to rest – amending a centuries-old tradition of a decorated send off as he works to simplify papal customs.
In English the word may or may not be italicised, and if it is may use the French circumflex: châsse.Regardless of the form used, the term in English is normally only used of "house"-shaped boxes, usually enamelled ones, whereas in French it is a general term for reliquaries with a box, "shrine" or casket form, of any shape, and tends to be used especially for larger examples.
Once the body is shrouded, the casket is closed. For burial in Israel, however, a casket is not used in most cemeteries. The society may also provide shomrim, or watchers, to guard the body from theft, vermin, or desecration until burial. In some communities this is done by people close to the departed or by paid shomrim hired by the funeral ...
King Charles III deeply regrets making his sons Prince William and Prince Harry process behind Princess Diana‘s casket during her 1997 funeral after learning how much it impacted them.
— `He is going to change the world’: Funeral held for George Floyd. HOUSTON — George Floyd was fondly remembered Tuesday as “Big Floyd” — a father and brother, athlete and neighborhood ...