cist (Crossword)

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• A cinerary urn. See Illustration in Appendix
• A cist (t or t; also kist t
• Receptacle for the body or ashes in early burials
• Prehistoric European coffin containing a body or ashes
• Tomb consisting of stone chest covered with stone slabs
• A cist was a place of interment of an early or prehistoric period
• The ancient Greeks and Romans called the coffers they used for the remains of the dead a cist
• A bronze receptacle, round or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover, and with feet
• A roughly rectangular structure used for inhumation and cremation burials and formed from four or more stone slabs set on edge

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