1. Its grounds are a mixture of historic columbarium for cinerary ashes. 2. It turned out to be an early Bronze Age Cinerary Urn. 3. The burials there are exclusively cinerary urns made of disintegrating unfired earth. 4. This covered at least sixteen cinerary urns, mainly bucket-shaped. 5. Many cinerary urns are realistic looking or at least have harshly treated faces. 6. Ashes contained in cinerary urns and other monumental vessels were placed in tombs. 7. Sometimes however the body was cremated with the ashes placed in a cinerary urn. 8. Scholars debate whether the heads of reclining figures on Etruscan cinerary urns are the forebears to Republican portraiture. 9. They had been buried in the Bronze Age style, with inverted cinerary urns placed over the cremation ashes. 10. The most credited hypothesis holds that they were originally fixed to cinerary urns, to give them a human appearance.
