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tombstone

stele or marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave
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Summary

tombstone is an information[1]. tombstone draws 1,797 Wikipedia views per month (information category, ranking #2 of 7).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: sepulchral monument[3]
  • Commons category: Gravestones[4]
  • Unicode character: 🪦[5]
  • Has part(s): Islamic tombstone[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Gravestones[7]
  • Commons gallery: Gravestone[8]
  • Described by source: Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[9], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[10]
  • Main Wikidata property: P1442[11]
  • Different from: commemorative plaque[12]
  • Studied by: cemeterying[13]

Why It Matters

tombstone has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] tombstone is known by 66 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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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. 10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → ['gravestones', 'headstones']
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 14442
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: gravestones, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289934312|gravestones (#289934312)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] "
  2. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0001450-nahrobky
    Pactols thesaurus id → pcrtSZdQ2VTs2k
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0001450-nahrobky, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
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