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    Funerary reliefs of married couples were common in Roman funerary art. They are one of the most common funerary portraits found on surviving freedmen...
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    have survived in small numbers. Roman funerary art includes many portraits such as married couple funerary reliefs, which were most often made for wealthy...
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    Often a couple are shown, signifying a longing for reunion in the afterlife rather than a double burial (see married couple funerary reliefs). In later...
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    Roman funerary practices include the Ancient Romans' religious rituals concerning funerals, cremations, and burials. They were part of time-hallowed tradition...
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    pharaoh Psusennes I. She likely married her brother Smendes II who became High Priest of Amun after his father's death. The couple had at least a daughter, Isetemkheb...
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    unexpectedly, in her 20s or 30s. The couple's pyramid-shaped chapel has been known since at least 1818 when one of their funerary stele was purchased by the antiquarian...
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    deceased couple appear in adoration of a series of gods. The south wall featured the funeral procession. The lower register shows the funerary sledge pulled...
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    Tomb effigy (category Funerary art)
    shroud, and shown either dying or shortly after death. Such funerary and commemorative reliefs were first developed in Ancient Egyptian and Etruscan cultures...
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    iconography of these bas-reliefs representing a religious syncretism by blending Manichaean and Zoroastrian symbols in the funerary art. Despite the fact...
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    describe what happens when the Eye goddess rampages uncontrolled. In the funerary text known as the Book of the Heavenly Cow, Ra sends Hathor as the Eye...
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    representing their marriage ceremony, suitable for the sarcophagus of a married couple. Milburn, Robert (1991). Early Christian Art and Architecture. University...
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    are part of a standard decoration program for the funerary complex of the king: "Beautiful reliefs with the scenes of the sed-festival from this sun temple...
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    of olive or wool on the door. As part of ancient funerary practice, the death were wreathed, funerary urns were wreathed, and wreaths were lain on and...
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    blocks. The Aten reliefs from the Amarna period on those blocks therefore remained fairly well preserved. Horemheb appear in reliefs wearing the typical...
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    their best men. A parish usually owns one set to use for all the couples that are married there since these are much more expensive than Greek-style crowns...
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    in 1977. Kleiner wrote a highly praised doctoral dissertation on Roman funerary art. Kleiner began her teaching career as a lecturer in art history at...
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    Hatshepsut was then married to Thutmose II, her half-brother and father's heir, when she was fourteen or fifteen years old. The couple were around the same...
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    burial practices of ancient Rome and Roman funerary art, marble and limestone sarcophagi elaborately carved in relief were characteristic of elite inhumation...
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    but inherited the rank of their father if unmarried, or their husband if married.[citation needed] The weregild or recompense due for the killing or injuring...
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    include the notable funerary moment of Duke Johann Casimir for his parents, a 13 m-tall alabaster sculpture painted with statue and reliefs (1595–1598). The...
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    royal seals and stone blocks – the latter of which were found within the funerary temple of Queen Ankhesenpepi II, the known mother of Pepi II – were discovered...
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    with a silver relief. The reliefs depict, from bottom to top, the Crucifixion, the Entombment and Christ in realm of the dead. The relief on the predella...
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    Beketaten – Sometimes thought to be Queen Tiye's daughter, usually based on reliefs of Baketaten seated next to Tiye at dinner with Akhenaten and Nefertiti...
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    they attached to the love affair of that particular couple." (Images of Eternal Beauty in Funerary Verse Inscriptions of the Hellenistic Period)[circular...
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    Asklepios, Dionysos, and Helios; he had powers over fertility, the sun, funerary rites, and medicine. His growth and popularity reflected a deliberate policy...
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    a deaf American art student, Augusta Fisher Homer. They married on June 1, 1877. The couple had one child, a son named Homer Saint-Gaudens. In 1874,...
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    ISBN 978-9004388628. Canepa, Matthew (2010). "Achaemenid and Seleukid Royal Funerary Practices and Middle Iranian Kingship". In Börm, H.; Wiesehöfer, J. (eds...
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    Merenre's is still uncertain. Following his death, Merenre was the object of a funerary cult until at least the end of the Old Kingdom. During the New Kingdom...
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    alternative chronology, they were married in 1320. By an alternative chronology, he was born in 1339. The couple married in 1362, if bearing in mind an alternative...
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    for leading courts in Europe. He is known for his portraits, funerary sculptures, reliefs, statues of children and allegorical, biblical and mythological...
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