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Tomb

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A built or cut resting place for the dead. Pyramids, shaft graves, and family tombs are local architectures.

Egyptian religion

  • Tomb appears in Egyptian religion.

    Herodotus’s Egyptian logos walks tombs and burial works among the land’s great monuments. A named tomb class in that traveler’s account, not pyramid as a named form alone and not every grave dump.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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Hellenic religion

  • Tomb appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias walks hero-tombs and marked graves among Greek sanctuaries and city itineraries. A named tomb class in that periegesis, not Egyptian tomb speech already walked from Herodotus and not every modern cemetery dump.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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  • Tomb is historically related to Marble.

    In Brewster's A Treatise on Optics, Tomb is placed beside Marble as concrete shop companions.

    from David Brewster · A Treatise on Optics, 1831 (and later PD editions)

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  • Tomb is associated with Resurrection.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the lion born dead and waked after three days becomes a symbol of Christ’s resurrection from the dead after three days’ rest in the tomb — the tomb rest is that resurrection figure.

    from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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  • Tomb is historically related to Cross.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, an example of the Greek cross is taken from the tomb of the Empress Galla Placidia at Ravenna — the tomb bears that cross.

    from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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