noun
definition
A small receptacle for sacred utensils carried in festivals in Ancient Greece.
Examples of cist in a Sentence
A tumulus and cist graves were dug containing weapons, fibulae, and pottery of sub-Mycenaean type like that previously found at Theotoku.
After the burial the cist was covered in with earth.
The chamber, no longer regarded as a habitation to be tenanted by the deceased, became simply a cist for the reception of the urn which held his ashes.
The white and calcined bones were then picked out of the ashes by the friends and placed in a metallic urn, which was deposited in a hollow grave or cist and covered over with large well-fitting stones.
These type of chambered Bronze Age cist burials are known as segmented cists.
The pit containing the cist was markedly deeper than the individual graves.
Each had a stone cist at the center which held a cremation burial.
He dug a trench and found a cist that had already been opened and cleaned of contents.
The skull was excavated from cist no.1 and is an example of a Bronze Age short cist within a cairn.
Following this industrial archeology, phase B is a Bronze Age cairn with a central cist.
The second of these burials may have removed an earlier stone-lined cist.
In the process of uncovering the exposed cist, a second cist was found.
The hollow near the center is probably the site of a robbed burial cist.
In the latter case, if the tumulus of stones covers a megalithic cist or a sepulchral chamber with a passage leading into it from the outside, it is often called a dolmen.
Presumably, this stone is all that remains of an excavated cist.