Reliquary

/ɹɪlˈɪkwəɹi/

/ɹɪlˈɪkwɛɹi/

[noun]

Reliquary

[NOUN]

a container where religious relics are stored or displayed (especially relics of saints)

Examples

1. The number of extant statue pedestals, the number of luxury goods, most notably Chinese export wares, gold leaf ornaments, and green glazed Khmer celadon boxes, and the number of funerary and reliquary monuments associated with each complex.

2. And so, the simplicity and the simple geometry of the face of Mademoiselle Pogany has been likened to Kota reliquary figures from Gabon, which function to protect and demarcate the bones of family members.

3. Muchaku is depicted as a more slender figure than his brother, and holds a cylindrical object, perhaps a reliquary, wrapped in a piece of cloth.

4. Reliquaries served as repositories of statuary, treasure, and funerary remains.