page_title: Cist
hierarchical_section_title: Cist
caption_attribution_description: Español: Cista, reconstrucción museística
context_page_description: A cist is a small stone-built coffin-like box or ossuary used to hold the bodies of the dead. Examples can be found across Europe and in the Middle East.
  A cist may have been associated with other monuments, perhaps under a cairn or long barrow. Several cists are sometimes found close together within the same cairn or barrow. Often ornaments have been found within an excavated cist, indicating the wealth or prominence of the interred individual.
  This old word is preserved in the Swedish language, where "kista" is the word for a funerary coffin.
context_section_description: A cist (/ˈsɪst/ or /ˈkɪst/; also kist /ˈkɪst/;
  from Greek: κίστη, Middle Welsh Kist or Germanic Kiste) is a small stone-built coffin-like box or ossuary used to hold the bodies of the dead. Examples can be found across Europe and in the Middle East.
  A cist may have been associated with other monuments, perhaps under a cairn or long barrow. Several cists are sometimes found close together within the same cairn or barrow. Often ornaments have been found within an excavated cist, indicating the wealth or prominence of the interred individual.
  This old word is preserved in the Swedish language, where "kista" is the word for a funerary coffin.
caption: Cist
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