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Scythian Funeral Procession
Artist's impression of how a Scythian funeral process may have looked like. A typical Scythian burial mound (or kurgan) is visible in the background.
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Tomb of the Funeral Couch, Tarquinia
The Etruscan Tomb of the Funeral Couch, Tarquinia, 470-450 BCE. (National Etruscan Museum, Villa Giulia, Rome)
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Funeral Stele of Hegeso
"HEGESO, DAUGHTER OF PROXENOS" ΗΓΗΣΩΠΡΟΧΕΝΟ So reads the inscription at the top of the stele. At left a slave girl stands, holding out a jewellery box for Hegeso who has taken an item out of the box. The detail of the jewellery would...
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Cremated Ivory Cupids from a Funeral Couch, Rome
After cremation, the incinerated bones were picked out and sorted from the charred wood of the fire and the couch on which the body had been laid. While the bones would be collected and placed into an urn, the remains of the wood and couch...
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Iberian Funeral Stela
An Iberian funeral stela from Empuries. The design shows a a coiled iron spear or soliferreum, an action which was customary on burial. 6th century BCE. (Archaeological Museum, Empuries, Spain)
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State Funeral of Antonín Dvořák
A 1904 photograph of the state funeral procession in Prague of the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904).
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Western Roman Empire
The Western Roman Empire is the modern-day term for the western half of the Roman Empire after it was divided in two by the emperor Diocletian (r. 284-305 CE) in c. 285/286 CE. The Romans themselves did not use this term. At its height (c...
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Roman Religion
In many societies, ancient and modern, religion has performed a major role in their development, and the Roman Empire was no different. From the beginning Roman religion was polytheistic. From an initial array of gods and spirits, Rome added...
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Athanaric
Athanaric (died c. 381 CE) was a king of the Thervingi Goths (better known as the Visigoths) and, according to some sources, the first and greatest king. He was of the noble Balts family of the Thervingi tribe and a relative of the later...
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire, at its height (c. 117), was the most extensive political and social structure in western civilization. Building upon the foundation laid by the Roman Republic, the empire became the largest and most powerful political and...
