Home › Entities › urn › funerary urn

funerary urn

container for cremated remains
Class type of: urn, funerary vessel Q960844

Facts

5 properties
Subclass of
urn, funerary vessel[1][2]
Has use
funeral, ancestor worship[3][4]
Described by source
Pauly–Wissowa, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[6][7]
P14541
38WhO6[8]
Unicode character
⚱[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en cremation urn en cinerary chest en sepulchral chest en funerary urn en mortuary jar en sepulchral urn en burial urn en ash urn en cinerary urn cs urna na popel cs urna cs pohřební urna cs urna na popel zemřelých da urne de Graburne de Bestattungsurne es ⚱ es urna cineraria es urna funeraria fa خاکستردان
🔖 Identifiers · 23
GND ID
4768035-0
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Urna funerara con coperchio, da atene, 10 ac-10 dc ca..JPG ↗
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300124808
BNCF Thesaurus ID
18248
Biblissima authority ID
Wikidata item
Dewey Decimal Classification
731.72, 393.2
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
222946
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/cinerary-urn
FISH Archaeological Objects Thesaurus ID
95886, 95903
Freebase ID
/m/04lfkd
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/1q6j82s1v
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
4701279
Show all 23 identifiers +11
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
cinerary-urns
Joconde object type ID
T505-864
Museum-digital tag ID
1091
Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging
13000
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
510073
PACTOLS thesaurus ID
pcrt8BX3Wpl35X, pcrtn2r49gb31k
Portable Antiquities Scheme object type ID
BURIAL+URN, Burial+Pot, CINERARY+URN
Quora topic ID
Cremation-Urns
RKD thesaurus ID
67037
TOPCMB ID
urna cineraria
Thésaurus de la désignation des objets mobiliers ID
390

Report an error or request removal Lineage (PROV-JSON)

🔗 Connections
Examples 2
Sarcophagus of the Spouses, Sarcophagus of the Spouses
Has use 2
funeral, ancestor worship
Described by source 1
Pauly–Wissowa
Subclass of 1
urn
Subtypes 1
canopic jar
← Has use 1
Derveni krater
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [1] ↑ . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). funerary urn. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/funerary-urn
MLA “funerary urn.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 5 Nov. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/funerary-urn.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_funerary-urn_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{funerary urn}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/funerary-urn}, note = {Accessed: 2026-11-05}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): funerary urn — https://4ort.xyz/entity/funerary-urn (retrieved 2026-11-05)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/funerary-urn · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority ID → Wikidata item
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority ID: Q297355, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  2. 16w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 38WhO6
    Described by source → Pauly–Wissowa, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)
    Has use → funeral, ancestor worship
    Aliases → —
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.