mortuary+statue

  • 101Cults —     Divine: offered by the priests on behalf of a god in his temple, this took the form of rituals that included the daily care and preparation (including the presentation of food offerings) of the god s statue, and the regular festivals… …

    Ancient Egypt

  • 102Memnon, Colossi of —    The two colossal statues of Amenhotep III that stood before his mortuary temple on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes. The statues were named by the Greeks after the legendary Ethiopian king Memnon, who fought in the Trojan War. One was… …

    Ancient Egypt

  • 103Mycerinus — (Menkaure) King c.2528 2500 BC.     Mycerinus (the Graecised but better known name of Menkaure) was the king who built the third pyramid at Giza. Much smaller than the monuments of his father, *Chephren, and his grandfather *Cheops, the pyramid… …

    Ancient Egypt

  • 104obituary — Synonyms and related words: Clio, Muse of history, adventures, annals, arch, archival, autobiography, barrow, bill of mortality, biographical sketch, biography, body count, boundary stone, brass, bust, cairn, case history, casualty list, cenotaph …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 105Nenagh — Aonach Urmhumhan   Town   Pearse Street, Nenagh …

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  • 106Ken Dedes — the first queen of Singhasari, she was the wife of Ken Arok, the first ruler of Singhasari, Java, Indonesia. She was later considered as the origin of lineage of kings that rule Java, the great mother of Rajasa dynasty, the royal family that rule …

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  • 107Church architecture — The 800 year old Church of Termunterzijl in the north of the Netherlands See also: Architecture of cathedrals and great churches Church architecture refers to the architecture of buildings of Christian churches. It has evolved over the two… …

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  • 108Bartolomeo Colleoni — (c. 1395/1400 ndash; november 2, 1475) was an Italian condottiero. Colleoni was born at Solza, in the countryside of Bergamo (Lombardy), where he prepared his magnificent mortuary chapel, the Cappella Colleoni , in a shrine that he seized when it …

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  • 109Rakowicki Cemetery — Alleyway between tombs …

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  • 110James Redfern — Infobox Person name = James Frank Redfern image size = caption = The virtues at the top of the Albert Memorial birth date = 1838Dictionary of National Biography now in the public domain] birth place = Hartington, Derbyshire, England death date =… …

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