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necropoli ad incinerazione

English translation: cremation necropolis

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Italian term or phrase:necropoli ad incinerazione
English translation:cremation necropolis
Entered by: Lucia Musciacchio

17:08 Jan 30, 2011
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Archaeology
Italian term or phrase: necropoli ad incinerazione
Nella parete settentrionale della sala sono ricostruite la sezione e alcune sepolture della necropoli ad incinerazione
Lucia Musciacchio
Italy
Local time: 10:36
cremation necropolis
Explanation:
Dead people are not incinerated, but cremated.
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Alistair Ian Spearing Ortiz
Spain
Local time: 10:36
Grading comment
Thank you very much.
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4 +3cremation necropolis
Alistair Ian Spearing Ortiz


  

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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
cremation necropolis


Explanation:
Dead people are not incinerated, but cremated.

Example sentence(s):
  • Recent archaeologícal field work undertaken ín the Celtiberian cremation necropolis of Numantia (Soria, Spain) has provided a group of glass beads from the 2nd century BC.
  • As recent excavations have revealed, Tyre's primary extramural cemetery, an extensive cremation necropolis in use from the tenth to the seventh century BC, ...
Alistair Ian Spearing Ortiz
Spain
Local time: 10:36
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you very much.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Science451
2 hrs
  -> Thank you.
agree  simon tanner: just been doing a translation on the same subject, and this is the term I used
14 hrs
  -> Good!
agree  Ernestine Shargool
1 day 3 hrs
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