CREMATION

CREMATION
   The dominant mode of funerary rite in central Italy during the Bronze Age and early Iron Age, where the body was burned on a funerary pyre. A number of sophisticated studies have been able to separate this ceremony into a series of phases of the rite of passage, separating those items that were burned from those that were not. This rite (or variation of it) was retained in the cities of northern Etruria (e.g., Volterra, Chiusi, Perugia), whereas inhumation took over as the dominant rite in many of the southern cities such as Caere or Tarquinia.
   Section showing cremation burials at Veii.

Historical Dictionary of the Etruscans. .

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(especially of the dead)


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  • Cremation — Cre*ma tion (kr? m? sh?n), n. [L. crematio.] A burning; esp., the act or practice of cremating the dead. [1913 Webster] Without cremation . . . of their bodies. Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • CREMATION — Disposal of the dead body by burning is not a Jewish custom and inhumation is considered by traditional Jews to be obligatory and a religious commandment. The passage in Deuteronomy (21:23) his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

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