甕かめ棺かん

noun

burial urn; funerary urn

Archaeological term for a large earthenware jar used as a coffin, often with a two-storey structure (upper and lower sections).

• この遺い跡せきからは、弥生やよい時じ代だいの甕かめ棺かんが多た数すう出しゅつ土どした。

  Many Yayoi-period burial urns were excavated from this site.

• 甕かめ棺かんは、主おもに幼よう児じや成せい人じんの埋まい葬そうに用もちいられた。

  Burial urns were used mainly for burying infants and adults.