Urns and Cists are small boxes or ovals that contain cremated ashes.  These can be made of terracotta or metal.  

Objects: Funerary Urns Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
2972 (none) (none) (none) Pottery cist. Drab ware from tomb. Fragmentary.
2973 (none) (none) (none) Pottery cist. Small box with snake relief on outside and inside on bottom snake approaching throne.
7141 (none) 1927,0527.265 (none) Clay sacrificial urn. Black painted decoration. Ribbed. Prehistoric. [A] Ox rib fragment found inside. E.
75 (none) (none) (none) Bronze funerary urn. frg. of very much broken up and oxidized. It contains human bones all broken up small, but shewing no signs of burning. [drawing] Bottom of urn set about 0.015 above the lowest edge of the walls
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