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Cenotaphs


  • Here are entered works on empty tombs or other monuments erected in honor of people buried elsewhere.
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    • found: 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.
    • found: Wikipedia, June 16, 2020(Jaswant Thada is a cenotaph located in Jodhpur, in the Indian state of Rajasthan)
    • found: 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)
    • found: Art & architecture thesaurus online, June 16, 2020:(cenotaphs. SN Sepulchral monuments erected to a person or persons buried elsewhere. BT sepulchral monuments)
    • found: 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)
    • found: 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)
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    • Here are entered works on empty tombs or other monuments erected in honor of people buried elsewhere.
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    • 2020-06-16: new
    • 2020-09-04: revised
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