0 used at or relating to funerals (= ceremonies for burying or burning the dead): --
a traditional funerary mask
This identification can also be seen in sculpture and funerary rites.
The importance of the funerary architecture has been overemphasized, and little interpretation has been made of the social meaning of the objects themselves.
Although this hypothesis responds to the general purpose of the objects, it does not explain why most of these sets were associated with funerary contexts.
Usually embedded in the ground, these fonts represent in the most literal sense a tomb or funerary chamber.
An electrical resistivity survey was conducted on a large part of the hillside in the hope of revealing untouched funerary structures.
An interesting detail about this hillside site is the fact that the same funerary space was used at two very different points in time.
For this very reason, also, only broad contextual categories - domestic, funerary, religious - have been employed.
Rather than the primarily funerary function previously suggested for these objects, contextual data suggest multivalent meanings and functions.
