Cenotaphs
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Name (Latin)
Cenotaphs
See Also From tracing topical name
Sepulchral monuments
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Wikidata:
Q321053
Library of congress:
sh2020005947
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Jaswant Thada and stairway approach, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, ca. 19th century A.D., via University of Washington digital collections, International Collections, June 16, 2020.
- Wikipedia, June 16, 2020(Jaswant Thada is a cenotaph located in Jodhpur, in the Indian state of Rajasthan)
- Merriam-Webster dictionary online, June 16, 2020(cenotaph: a tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person or group of persons whose remains are elsewhere)
- Art & architecture thesaurus online, June 16, 2020:(cenotaphs. SN Sepulchral monuments erected to a person or persons buried elsewhere. BT sepulchral monuments)
- Britannica online, June 16, 2020(cenotaph, (from Greek kenotaphion, "empty tomb"), a monument, sometimes in the form of a tomb, to a person who is buried elsewhere; the term is now almost wholly applied, however, to national war memorials)
- Wikipedia, June 16, 2020(a cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere; it can also be the initial tomb for a person who has since been reinterred elsewhere; although the vast majority of cenotaphs honour individuals, many noted cenotaphs are instead dedicated to the memories of groups of individuals, such as the lost soldiers of a country or of an empire)
Wikipedia description:
A cenotaph is an empty grave, tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere or have been lost. It can also be the initial tomb for a person who has since been reinterred elsewhere. Although the majority of cenotaphs honor individuals, many noted cenotaphs are also dedicated to the memories of groups of individuals, such as the lost soldiers of a country or of an empire.
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