| LC control no. | sh2020005947 |
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| Topical heading | Cenotaphs |
| See also | Sepulchral monuments |
| Scope note | Here are entered works on empty tombs or other monuments erected in honor of people buried elsewhere. |
| Found in | Work cat.: Jaswant Thada and stairway approach, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, ca. 19th century A.D., via University of Washington digital collections, International Collections, June 16, 2020. Wikipedia, June 16, 2020 (Jaswant Thada is a cenotaph located in Jodhpur, in the Indian state of Rajasthan) Merriam-Webster dictionary online, June 16, 2020 (cenotaph: a tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person or group of persons whose remains are elsewhere) Art & architecture thesaurus online, June 16, 2020: (cenotaphs. SN Sepulchral monuments erected to a person or persons buried elsewhere. BT sepulchral monuments) Britannica online, June 16, 2020 (cenotaph, (from Greek kenotaphion, "empty tomb"), a monument, sometimes in the form of a tomb, to a person who is buried elsewhere; the term is now almost wholly applied, however, to national war memorials) Wikipedia, June 16, 2020 (a cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere; it can also be the initial tomb for a person who has since been reinterred elsewhere; although the vast majority of cenotaphs honour individuals, many noted cenotaphs are instead dedicated to the memories of groups of individuals, such as the lost soldiers of a country or of an empire) |
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