potter's fields
Indigent burial ground
A potter's field is a burial ground for the poor, unknown, or unclaimed—those buried at public expense when no one else will pay.
The term comes from the New Testament, where Judas's blood money bought a field for burying strangers.
The city's potter's field holds thousands of unmarked graves.
- biblical referencesCitations from holy scripture
- thirty pieces of silverBiblical betrayal payment
- mass graveShared burial for many
- unmarked gravesBurial sites without identification
- social inequalityUneven distribution of opportunity
Judas Iscariot · blood money · churchyard · burial ground · sacred land · marginalized communities · gothic imagery · urban poverty · exhumation · public health concerns · consecrated ground · archaeological sites · burial rites · ossuary · reclaimed land · communal responsibility · zoning laws
- cemeteriescemetery, graves, grave, burial, headstones
potter's fieldsfamily plots
Cemetery space for relatives
family cemetery · family plot · royal tomb · national cemetery · Arlington National Cemetery
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