burial goods
Interment accompaniment items
Burial goods are objects placed with the dead at interment—possessions, tools, food, or valuables meant to accompany the deceased into the afterlife or honor their memory.
Archaeologists study burial goods to understand ancient cultures: The tomb contained burial goods including jewelry, weapons, and pottery.
The practice spans virtually all human societies and eras.
- royal tombBurial site for sovereigns
- weaponsTools for fighting
- jewelryOrnamental personal accessories
- jade ornamentsCarved green gemstone accessories
- bronze mirrorsReflective metal discs
vessels · food offerings · figurines · woven mats · sculptures · tools · death mask · masks · pottery · amulets · seals · Book of the Dead · seeds · scarabs · shroud · coins · urns · clothing
- Asian PrehistoryPaleolithic, Bronze Age, Chalcolithic, hunter-gatherers, stone tools
- artifactspottery shards, knives, masks, pottery, antiquity
- Egyptian Antiquitiesmummies, sarcophagi, sarcophagus, canopic jars, scarabs
- ancient artifactsjade mask, Viking sword, bronze sculptures, antiquities, Roman coin
- Archaeological Museumartifacts, pottery, pottery shards, fossils, mummies
- Egyptian tombssarcophagus, mummy, mummies, canopic jar, sarcophagi
burial goodsworldly goods
One's material property
household goods · personal effects · provisions · household items · daily necessities
burial goodsinheritance
Property received from ancestors
heirlooms · bequests · estate · hand-me-downs · keepsakes