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TOMB (Gr. TVH&O., Tii/n/3os, probably allied to Lat. tumulus, literally a swelling, tumere, to swell), a general term for a place of burial for the dead, including the excavation or cavity in which the body is lajd and the superstructure which marks the place. ...

... ined from it in various ways. After death it was mummified and buried in a rock-tomb. Less widespread was the cult of the Mnevis, also consecrated to Osiris. Similar observances are found in our own day on the Upper Nile; the Nuba and Nuer worship the bull; th ...

... articles, are for him alike endowed with souls like his own; he deposits in the tomb weapons and food, clothes and implements, broken, it may be, in order to set free their souls; or he attains the same result by burning them, and thus sending them to the Othe ...

... te (i) the fronts of ante-fixae, (2) the upper portion of the stele or vertical tombstones, (3) the necking of the Ionic columns of the Krrrht hrum and its continuation as a decorative frieze on the walls of the tame, and (4) the cymatium of a cornice. Though ...

... inner being he who drained his cup most rapidly. Others poured libations on the tombs of deceased relatives. On the part of the state this day was the occasion of a peculiarly solemn and secret ceremony in one of the sanctuaries of Dionysus in the Lenaeum, whi ...

... erp is that of St James, far more ornate than the cathedral, and containing the tomb of Rubens, who devoted himself to its embellishment. The Bourse or exchange, which claims to be the first distinguished by the former name in Europe, is a fine new building fi ...

... n that became customary. In very early inscriptions the funerary prayers in the tombs are addressed to him almost exclusively, and he always took a leading place in them. In the scene of the weighing of the soul before Osiris, dating from the New-kingdom onwar ...

... e deification of dead emperors. But it is still used simply for the erection of tombs (clearly so in some Greek inscriptions, Corpus Inscript. Grace. 2831, 2832, quoted in Pauly-Wissowa, s.v. Apotheosis). Possibly there is a trace of ancestor worship even here ...

... nd in sculpture. As specimens of exquisite work may be mentioned the Martinengo tomb, in the church of the Padri Riformati at Brescia, and the facade of the church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli there, by the Lombard!; and many of the carvings of the Chateau de G ...

... ffluents, the Bonito, C.ar<.as. Cristallino and Tapirap6 on the west, and the Pitombas, Claro, Vennelho, Tucupa and Chavante on the cast, nothing definite is known as the country is still largely unexplored. The Araguaya has a course of 1080 m.. considerable s ...

... it has now lost its manufactures and trade and preserves only a few mosques and tombs as traces of its former grandeur. It is a station on the line of railway from Madras to Beypur, but has ceased to be ARCTIC— ARCUEIL a military cantonment. The most famous ep ...

... lf on the throne his son Shapur, who successfully continued his work. Under the tombs of Darius I. at Persepolis, on the surface of the rock, Ardashir has sculptured his image and that of the god Ahuramazda (Ormuzd or Ormazd). Both are on horseback; the god is ...

... Rome; the gate by which it left the Servian wall was the Porta Naevia; a large tomb behind the baths of Caracalla lay on its course. The gate by which it left the Aurelian wall has been obliterated by the bastion of Antonio da Sangallo (Ch. HUlsen in Romische ...

... e retired to Chalcis in Euboea. There, away from his school, in 322 he died. (A tomb has been found in our time inscribed with the name of Biote, daughter of Aristotle. But is this our Aristotle ?) Such is our scanty knowledge of Aristotle's life, which seems ...

... he Parthians in 216. He crossed the Tigris, destroyed the towns and spoiled the tombs of Arbela; but when Artabanus advanced at the head of an army, he retired to Carrhac. There he was murdered by Macrinus in April 217. Macrinus was defeated at Nisibis and con ...

... e memory of her husband. She built for him, in Halicamassus, a very magnificent tomb, called the Mausoleum, which was one of the seven wonders of the world, and from which the name mausoleum was afterwards given to all tombs remarkable for their grandeur. She ...

... ly approximating to the Villanova type are found; in the second1 (Venetian) the tombs are constructed of blocks of stone, and silulae (bronze buckets), sometimes decorated with elaborate designs, are frequently used to contain the cinerary urns; in the third ( ...

... from the games at Athens by natives of that district. These vases, found in the tombs, probably, of the winners, are made of clay, and painted on one side with a representation of the contest in which they were won, and on the other side with a figure of Palla ...

... s yet been ascertained, recent excavations, which led to the discovery of a few tombs in which the earliest objects showing Greek influence may go back to the 7th century B.C., not having produced any decisive evidence on the point. To the Roman period belong ...

... h, being buried at Saffron Walden, where he had prepared for himself a splendid tomb. He received several grants of monastic estates, including the priory of Christ Church in London and the abbey of Walden in Essex, where his grandson, Thomas Howard, earl of S ...

... ttention having been chiefly devoted to the necropolis which lay below it; 1400 tombs had already been examined in 1908, though this number is conjectured to be only a sixteenth of the whole. They are all inhumation burials, of the advanced iron age, and date ...

... a. To the south, on the left bank of the Molinello. 1} m. from its mouth, Sicel tomb* and Christian catacombs, and farther up the river a cave village of the early middle ages, have been explored (Nolttie Jegfi Seafi, 1902,411,631; R&miscke Quarlaistkrift, 190 ...

... three classes, — ecclesiastical, including monasteries; civil and domestic; and tombs. It is in the two first that the principal interest is centred. Churches. — The earliest of these date from the end of the 4th century, and the latest inscription on a church ...

... the latter the cathedral of St Wih'bald (first bishop of Eichstatt), — with the tomb of the saint and numerous pictures and relics, — the church of St Walpurgis, sister of Wilibald, whose remains rest in the choir, and the Capuchin church, a copy of the Holy S ...

... ure. There are several churches, among them the Alexanderkirche, containing the tombs of the princes of Grubenhagen, and a synagogue. The schools include a Realgymnasium (i.e. predominantly for " modern " subjects), technical schools for the advanced study of ...

... ch " (Grosse Kirche), a large Gothic building completed in 1455, containing the tomb of Enno II. (d. 1540), count of East Friesland; the Gasthauskirche, formerly the church of a Franciscan friary founded in 1317; and the Neue Kirche (1643-1647). Of its secular ...

... ty tower, a marble screen, a chapter-house, a notable east window, several fine tombs and an altar of St Francis. On the site of the old court-house a colossal statue in white limestone of Daniel O'Connell was erected in 1865. The interesting ruins of Clare Ab ...

... st in the archaic temple of Diana at Ephesus; and it is not found in the Lycian tombs, which are reproductions in the rock of timber structures based on early Ionian work.

EPITAPH (Gr. fcnrdifru*, sc. X&yot, from fcri, upon, and ratfaf, a tomb), strictly, an inscription upon a tomb, though by a natural extension of usage the name is applied to anything written ostensibly for that purpose whether actually inscribed upon a tomb or ...

... Chapel of St Michael. 10. Chapel of St Maurice. 1 1. Chapel of the Rosary. 12. Tomb of Louisa Carlota. 13. Chapel of the Paired nio. Views and Plan of the Escorial.1 14. Chapel of the Cristo de la btirna miierte. 15. Chapel of the Eleven Thousand Virgins. 16. ...

... ings displayed (see HERALDRY) . The word is also applied to the shields used on tombs, in the spandrils of doors or in string-courses, and to the ornamented plates from the centre of which door-rings, knockers, &c., are suspended, or which protect the wood of ...

... nt Sebastian, and among the best known of his architectural productions are the tomb of Napoleon I. in the Invalides and a monument of the revolution of 1848. Etex wrote a number of essays on subjects connected with the arts. The last year of his life was spen ...

... statue of the founder in his royal robes, by John Bacon. A chantry contains the tomb of Roger Lupton (provost 1503-1535), whose most notable monument is the fine tower between the schoolyard and the cloisters to the east; though other parts of his building als ...

... Italy about 1000 B.C., and as the earliest imported Greek objects found in the tombs cannot be dated many generations later than this, this year may be considered as giving us roughly the time when the real Etruscan civilization began. It has been, and still ...

... Italy about 1000 B.C., and as the earliest imported Greek objects found in the tombs cannot be dated many generations later than this, this year may be considered as giving us roughly the time when the real Etruscan civilization began. It has been, and still ...

... has a handsome Roman Catholic church, with ceiling frescoes, and containing the tomb of Cardinal Rohan, the last prince bishop of Strassburg, who resided here from 1790 till 1803; a Protestant church and a medieval town-hall. ETTINGSHAUSEN— ETTY Its industries ...

... ut his stormy career, and was deeply reverenced for his personal character. His tomb in St Peter's acquired fame for miraculous cures, and he was pronounced blessed by Pius IX. in 1872. The chief sources for the career of Eugenius III. are his letters in J. P. ...

... oreover in a few cases there have been found in preMycenaean (late Minoan III.) tombs a few examples of short iron swords together with bronze remains. All Mycenaean spears are of bronze and, apparently, their shafts, unlike the Homeric, had no butt-piece. In ...

... n France, the influence of the Classic Revival was first seen in connexion with tombs and church work, though not nearly to the same extent as in France, where throughout the country the work of the Italian sculptor is to be found not only in churches but in c ...

... three sons and four daughters. The earl founded a hospital at Arundel, and his tomb in the church of the Augustinian Friars, Broad Street, London, was long a place of pilgrimage. His only surviving son, THOMAS (1381-1415), was a ward of John Holand, duke of E ...