burial offerings
Items for afterlife
Burial offerings are objects placed with the dead, intended to accompany or serve them in an afterlife.
Ancient tombs have yielded food, weapons, jewelry, and even sacrificed servants.
The practice spans nearly every culture and era: Egyptian pharaohs were buried with elaborate offerings for their journey to the underworld.
Also called grave goods or funerary offerings.
- grave goodsItems interred with corpses
- tombUnderground chamber for remains
- funeralService honoring the dead
- funeral pyreOutdoor body-burning structure
- last ritesSacrament for the dying
ancestors · spirit world · afterlife · sacrifice · incense · flowers · coins · jewelry · death mask · pottery · mummification · ritual · cremation · ashes · urn · shroud · mourning · libation
- burial customstombs, funerals, funerary rites, catacombs, graves
- Mesoamerican artAztec art, Aztec relics, codices, stelae, jade carvings
burial offeringswedding gifts
Items given to newlyweds
housewarming gifts · graduation gifts · dowry · trousseau · hostess gifts
burial offeringsinheritance
Property received from ancestors
bequests · patrimony · birthright · endowments · welcome gifts
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