Sepulchral monuments
Here are entered works on funerary monuments and gravestones. Works on tombs and mausoleums, mainly from the archaeological standpoint, are entered under Tombs. General works on cemeteries and burying-grounds are entered under Cemeteries.
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- Sepulchral monuments -- China
- Sepulchral monuments -- Egypt
- Sepulchral monuments -- Europe
- Sepulchral monuments -- Italy
- Sepulchral monuments -- Jerusalem
- Sepulchral monuments -- Rome
- Sepulchral monuments -- Scotland
- Sepulchral monuments -- United States
- Pyramids
- Sarcophagi
- Soldiers' monuments
- Funeral monuments
- Funerary monuments
- Graves
- Gravestones
- Memorial tablets
- Tablets, Memorial
- Tombstones
- Headstone
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Die Antiken Steindenkmäler des Provinzialmuseums in Bonn (in German; Bonn: In Kommission der Buchhandlung F. Cohen, 1918), by Hans Lehner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Chinese Grave-Sculptures of the Han Period (London: E. L. Morice; et al., 1911), by Berthold Laufer
- Miscellaneous Works of Mr. John Greaves, Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford (including works by Newton; 2 volumes; London: Printed by J. Hughs for J. Brindley, 1737), by John Greaves, contrib. by Isaac Newton and Thomas Birch (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Miracle in Stone: or, The Great Pyramid of Egypt (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, c1877), by Joseph A. Seiss
- A Poor Man's Photography at the Great Pyramid in the Year 1865 (London, H. Greenwood, 1870), by C. Piazzi Smyth (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh (1883), by W. M. Flinders Petrie (illustrated HTML with commentary at ronaldbirdsall.com)
- The Origin and Significance of the Great Pyramid (London, Reeves and Turner, 1882), by C. Staniland Wake (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid (5th edition; New York: A. D. F. Randolph and Co., 1890), by C. Piazzi Smyth (page images at HathiTrust)
- New Light from the Great Pyramid (New York: Metaphysical Pub. Co., 1893), by A. R. Parsons (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Pyramid Complex of Senwosret I (South Cemeteries of Lisht, v3; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992), by Dieter Arnold, contrib. by Dorothea Arnold, Felix Arnold, and Cheryl Ward Haldane (page images and PDF at metmuseum.org and Google)
- The Pyramid of Senwosret I (South Cemeteries of Lisht, v1; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988), by Dieter Arnold, contrib. by Dorothea Arnold and Peter Dorman (PDF at metmuseum.org (Google link may go to wrong book))
- The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh (1883), by W. M. Flinders Petrie (illustrated HTML with commentary at ronaldbirdsall.com)
- The Tomb of Perneb (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1919), by Albert M. Lythgoe and Caroline Ransom Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Obeliscus Pamphilius (in Latin; Rome: L. Grignani, 1650), by Athanasius Kircher (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Three Etruscan Painted Sarcophagi (Field Museum of Natural History publication #195; 1917), by F. B. Tarbell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Die Hohenzollern am Heiligen Grabe zu Jerusalem, Insbesondere Die Pilgerfahrt der Markgrafen Johann und Albrecht von Brandenburg im Jahre 1435 (in German; Berlin: F. Duncker, 1858), by F. Geisheim (page images at HathiTrust)
- Die Römischen Grabaltäre der Kaiserzeit (in German; Berlin, Weidmann, 1905), by Walter Altmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Guide to Inscriptions Sculptured on Tombstones, &c., Before the Year 1710, in the Parishes of Paisley (Paisley repository #14; ca. 1810) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Cemeteries and Gravemarkers: Voices of American Culture (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1992), ed. by Richard E. Meyer (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Pyramid Scheme, by Dave Freer and Eric Flint (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
- The House of the Hidden Places: A Clue to the Creed of Early Egypt, by W. Marsham Adams (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The New York Obelisk: or, How Cleopatra's Needle Came to New York and What Happened When It Got Here (adapted from an article in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin; New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Abrams, 1993), by Martina D'Alton (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
- Roman Sarcophagi in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978), by Anna Marguerite McCann (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
- Myth, Meaning, and Memory on Roman Sarcophagi (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Michael Koortbojian (HTML at UC Press)
- Roman Sarcophagi in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978), by Anna Marguerite McCann (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
- History of the Confederated Memorial Associations of the South (revised and authorized edition, c1904), by Confederated Southern Memorial Association (U.S.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Guide to the American Battle Fields in Europe (Washington: GPO, 1927), by American Battle Monuments Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Guide to the American Battle Fields in Europe (Washington: GPO, 1927), by American Battle Monuments Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Guide to the American Battle Fields in Europe (Washington: GPO, 1927), by American Battle Monuments Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dedication of the Confederate Monument, at Greenwood Cemetery, on Friday, April 10th, 1874 (New Orleans: J. A. Gresham, 1874) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Report of Committee on Ceremonies Incident to The Unveiling of The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, at Richmond, Va., May 30th, 1894 (1894), by United Confederate Veterans Virginia Division
- Ceremonies and Addresses Attending the Presentation of a Statue of Hunter Holmes McGuire by the Hunter McGuire Memorial Association, and its Acceptance by The State, at Richmond, Va., January 7, 1904 (Richmond, VA: Published under the auspices of R. E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans, 1904), contrib. by Hunter McGuire Memorial Association and Holmes Conrad (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Confederate Monument on Capitol Hill, Montgomery, Alabama, 1861-1900 (Montgomery, AL: Ladies Memorial Association, ca. 1900), ed. by Mrs. I. M. Porter Ockenden
- Address at the Dedication of The Monument to the Confederate Dead, University of Virginia, June 7, 1893 (Richmond, VA: Taylor and Taylor, printers, 1893), by Robert Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Monuments -- Indiana- Dedicatory Address: Unveiling of Morton Monument, July Twenty-Three Nineteen Hundred and Seven (ca. 1907), by J. Frank Hanly (HTML and page images at Indiana)
- Dethroning Historical Reputations: Universities, Museums and the Commemoration of Benefactors (London: Institute of Historical Research, 2018), ed. by Jill Pellew and Lawrence Goldman (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)
- Address by Alfred Nixon, Esq., at the Dedication of the Confederate Memorial Hall, Lincolnton, N.C., August 27th, 1908 (Lincolnton, NC: Southern Stars Chapter U.D.C., 1908), by A. Nixon, contrib. by William Alexander Hoke
- Dethroning Historical Reputations: Universities, Museums and the Commemoration of Benefactors (London: Institute of Historical Research, 2018), ed. by Jill Pellew and Lawrence Goldman (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)
- Monuments Erected by the State of Texas to Commemorate the Centenary of Texas Independence (1938), by Commission of Control for Texas Centennial Celebrations, ed. by Harold Schoen (page images at HathiTrust)
- Needles of Stone (electronic edition, 1998), by Tom Graves (illustrated HTML at Glastonbury Archive)
- Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy (third edition; Montgomery, AL: Southern Poverty Law Center, 2022), by Kimberly Probolus (PDF with commentary at splcenter.org)
- Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy (first edition; Montgomery, AL: Southern Poverty Law Center, ca. 2016), by Booth Gunter and Jamie Kizzire, contrib. by Cindy Kent (PDF at splcenter.org)
- The Story of Archer Alexander From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863, by William Greenleaf Eliot (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- La Vie et l'Oeuvre de Pierre Vaneau, Sculpteur Français du XVIIe Siècle; et Le Monument de Jean Sobieski (in French; Paris: Charavay Frères, 1882), by Marius Vachon
- The Story of Archer Alexander From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863, by William Greenleaf Eliot (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Ceremonies and Addresses Attending the Presentation of a Statue of Hunter Holmes McGuire by the Hunter McGuire Memorial Association, and its Acceptance by The State, at Richmond, Va., January 7, 1904 (Richmond, VA: Published under the auspices of R. E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans, 1904), contrib. by Hunter McGuire Memorial Association and Holmes Conrad (page images at HathiTrust)
- Remarks on the Monumental Bust of Shakspeare, at Stratford-Upon-Avon: With Two Wood-cuts, Representing Front and Profile Views of the Bust (London: The author, 1816), by John Britton (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Ode Upon Dedicating a Building, and Erecting a Statue, To Shakespeare, at Stratford Upon Avon (London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1769), by David Garrick
- Report of Proceedings Incidental to the Erection and Dedication of the Confederate Monument: Reception and Entertainment of Renowned Southern Generals and Other Distinguished Personages, at Chicago, Illinois; Luncheon and Banquet Given Them at Cincinnati, Ohio, and Their Military Greeting at Fort Thomas, Kentucky, May 29-June 1, 1895 (souvenir edition; Chicago: W. Johnston Printing Co., 1896), by John Cox Underwood
- Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy (third edition; Montgomery, AL: Southern Poverty Law Center, 2022), by Kimberly Probolus (PDF with commentary at splcenter.org)
- Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy (first edition; Montgomery, AL: Southern Poverty Law Center, ca. 2016), by Booth Gunter and Jamie Kizzire, contrib. by Cindy Kent (PDF at splcenter.org)
More items available under broader and related terms at left.