Glossary Terms
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| any object made by human hands | artifact
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| Roman word for soul or life-force | anima
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| the jackal-headed Egyptian god of embalming | Anubis
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| the Egyptian "soul" or spiritual counterpart of the body; could leave the tomb but had to return at night | Ba
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| a powerful organization of medieval healthcare professionals who sought a monopoly on the right to embalm | Barber-Surgeons
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| the Egyptian collection of magical texts designed to protect the deceased in the afterlife | Book of the Dead
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| containers in which the mummified viscera of an Egyptian were entombed | canopic jars
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| long underground tunnels used by the pagan Romans for burial and by the early Christians for burial and for worship during times of persecution | catacombs
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| three-headed, wild dog who guarded the way to Hades | Ceberus
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| burial ground (from the Greek "sleeping place") | cemeterium
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| a waxed linen sheet used as a shroud | cere cloth
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| a building holding the exhumed bones of bodies previously buried | Charnel House
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| the boatman who ferried souls to Hades - for a price | Charon
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| a wall-like structure with niches provided for the entombment of cremains (from the Latin dove-cote) | columbarium
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| in Roman funeral practice, hired female mourners | Conclamantes mortis
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| Roman assistant to the libitudinarius | designator
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| form of Greek religion; members believed in a happy immortality | Cult of Dionysus
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| the Greek term for paradise | Elysian Fields
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| a Greek & Roman school of philosophy whose members believed that both the soul and the body disintegrated after death | Epicurians
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| torchbearers in a Roman funeral procession | funerales
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| Roman term for a torch-lit procession, from which comes our word "funeral" | funeralis
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| Roman term for funeral rites | funus
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| artifacts buried with the deceased: clothing, jewelry, weapons, pottery, etc | grave goods
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| the Greek concept of the Underworld where souls lived a weak, shadowy existence; also the god who ruled there | Hades
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| Egyptian god of the river Nile | Hapi
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| the study of past events and cultures and their influence on present conditions, usually through the uses of written records | history
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| the study of past funeral beliefs and practices and their influences on funeral beliefs and practices today | history of funeral service
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| Egyptian "rock-cut" tombs cut directly into or under cliffs (from the Greek "under the earth) | hypogea
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| the Egyptian vital life force which generally resided in a ka-statue after death | Ka
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| the Egyptian priest who took charge of the body and supervised the embalming | Kher-heb
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| round columns used in Greece to commemorate the dead | kiones
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| Greek word for "basket" from which comes the English word "coffin" | kofinos
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| Roman protector-goddess of human remains and funerals | Libitina
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| Roman head undertaker and direct ancestor of today's professional funeral director | Libitudinarius
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| ancient Egyptian concept of justice and "the way things ought to be" | Maat
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| a kind of Egyptian tomb, rectangular in shape with sloping sides and a flat roof, covering a shaft leading to an underground burial chamber | mastaba
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| Greek tombs built to look like miniature temples | naidia
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| mixture of naturally-occuring salts used by the Egyptians to dehydrate bodies during the mummification process | natron
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| term used by archeologists for ancient cemeteries, especially Egyptian (from Greek "city of the dead") | necropolis
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| the Greek coin placed in the mouth of the deceased to pay Charon | obol
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| ancient Egyptian judge of the dead | Osiris
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| the complex of beliefs about the life and legend of Osiris which provided the religious justification for many of the funeral practices of the ancient Egyptians | Cult of Osiris
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| a container for bones | ossuary
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| in ancient Rome, a low-status employee or slave who performed whatever primitive embalming may have been done | pollinctor
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| in ancient Rome, the person who announced aloud on the streets the death of an individual and/or the approach of the funeral procession | praeco
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| Egyptian god of the sun | Ra
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| in early Christian practice, a religious service held for the repose of the soul of the deceased, often with the body present | Requiem Mass
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| a carved stone outer container protecting a coffin and the mummy within (from Greek "flesh eater") | sarcophagus
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| direct ancestor of today's concrete burial vault (from Greek "flesh eater") | sarcophagus
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| a kind of Egyptian tomb consisting of a row of small, square tomb chambers surrounding an open courtyard | saff tomb
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| a free-standing tomb structure (from Latin "sepelire," to cover the body) | sepulcher
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| medieval Church official in charge of the physical upkeep of the church building and the churchyard and who assumed some of the undertaker's duties | sexton
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| in ancient Hebrew belief, the abode of the dead | sheol
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| tall, rectangular stone shafts decorated with inscriptions and bas-reliefs and used as grave markers in ancient Greece | stelae
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| one of the river boundaries of Hades, the Greek abode of the dead | Styx
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| a law that limits the amount of money that can be spent on a funeral or on items considered to be luxuries | sumptuary law
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| the ancient Greek version of Hell | Tartarus
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| square-cut ancient Greek tombs | trapezae
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| small statues of servants entombed with Egyptian mummies | ushabtis
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| in Scandinavian (Viking) belief, he abode of the dead who died bravely in battle or after a successful life as a warrior | valhol/valhalla
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| the Egyptian place of embalming; direct ancestor of the preparation room | wabt
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| in Egyptian belief, that part of the person which upon death became part of the starry constellations of the night sky and, therefore, part of the universe | yakhu (akhu)
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