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Sketch made by Cunningham of the Satdhara stupas and the inscribed caskets of Sariputta and Moggallana. The box attributed to Sariputta contained a round white steatite casket, more than six inches in diameter and three inches in height. [14] [18] The surface was polished and hard, and the box is believed to have been turned on a lathe. [18]
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.
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
Pope Francis will now be buried in a wooden casket lined with zinc when he dies. AFP via Getty Images The 87-year-old pontiff – who turns 88 next month – enacted a new set of liturgical rites ...
The caskets and cremation urns are made from solid hardwoods, in the choice of poplar, cherry, walnut and oak. The Monastic Abbey Casket is designed after the caskets used by the monks of Saint Meinrad. Abbey Caskets also offers a more conventional casket, the Traditional Abbey Casket. [9]
The Noli me tangere casket (Noli me tangere: Latin for "Don't touch me") was a small silver-gilt casket made in 1356 for the Aachen Cathedral Treasury. It measured 15.2 cm in length, 3.7 cm in height and 4.8 cm in width.
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