Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial
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title:
Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial
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Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk is a work by Sir Thomas Browne, published in 1658 as the first part of a two-part work that concludes with The Garden of Cyrus. The title is Greek for "urn burial": A hydria (ὑδρία) is a large Greek pot, and taphos (τάφος) means "tomb". Its nominal subject was the discovery of some 40 to 50 Anglo-Saxon pots in Norfolk. The discovery of these remains prompts Browne to deliver, first, a description of the anti
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Book by Thomas Browne
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydriotaphia,_Urn_Burial
date created:
2003-01-26T20:26:28Z
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2024-09-07T18:40:14Z
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