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A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, ... "The Figurative Palanquins of the Ga. History and Significance", in: African Arts, Vol. 46, Nr. 4
A safety coffin or security coffin is a coffin fitted with a mechanism to prevent premature burial or allow the occupant to signal that they have been buried alive. A large number of designs for safety coffins were patented during the 18th and 19th centuries and variations on the idea are still available today.
Coffin texts and wooden models disappeared from new tombs of the period while heart scarabs and figurines shaped as mummies were now often included in burials, as they would be for the remainder of Egyptian history. Coffin decoration was simplified. The Thirteenth Dynasty saw another change in decoration. Different motifs were found in the ...
The Duke of Edinburgh’s coffin will descend into the Royal Vault during his funeral service, lowered by an electric motor. Joe Little, managing editor of Majesty magazine, described the moment ...
A hearse (/ h ɜːr s /) is a large vehicle, originally a horse carriage but later with the introduction of motor vehicles, a car, used to carry the body of a deceased person in a coffin to a funeral, wake, or graveside service. They range from deliberately anonymous vehicles to heavily decorated vehicles.
The coffin is covered with an elaborate red and gold pall. From the Hours of Étienne Chevalier by Jean Fouquet. (Musée Condé, Chantilly) A pall (also called mortcloth or casket saddle) is a cloth that covers a casket or coffin at funerals. [1] The word comes from the Latin pallium (cloak), through Old English. [2]
The crown jewels laid on the queen's coffin have an ancient history—and a powerful meaning for ... Along with lying in state at Westminster Hall and the ceremonial procession of her coffin ...
The Fisk metallic burial case was designed and patented by Almond D. Fisk under US Patent No. 5920 [5] on November 14, 1848. In 1849, the cast iron coffin was publicly unveiled at the New York State Agricultural Society Fair in Syracuse, New York and the American Institute Exhibition in New York City.