The Villanovans introduced iron-working to the Italian peninsula; they practiced cremation and buried the ashes of their dead in pottery urns of distinctive double-cone shape.

These burials included pottery urns, a pair of silver discs and a gold armlet.

Proto-villanovans practiced cremation and buried the ashes of their dead in pottery urns of distinctive double-cone shape.

Branches lay across the mouth of a pottery urn, their budding twigs stiff and still in a difficult death.

There were trees here the likes of which she'd never seen, planted in huge pottery urns.

In anger he jumped up, strode across the room, and swung the book at the red pottery urn, sweeping it off the desk.

There are also water holders from Rajasthan, in the north of India; pottery urns from Indonesia, and smooth alabaster vases from the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt.

Once over the fence, she ran straight for the back fence and scaled that one, too, taking out a pottery urn filled with flowers as she went and setting off a fusillade of barking dogs within the house.

They have also found in the dwellings well-preserved tools such as iron axes and sickles, wooden clubs, pottery urns and jars of preserved crops.

Dark hardwood floors, polished to a deep, waxy glass, and plain white walls provided a simple backdrop for throw-rugs, tapestries, ornate cabinets and large pottery urns or figurines standing on carved stands.