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A parallel decline in this practice has been connected to the increasing use of human images in iconography found in the Hallstatt area. Cicero and Pliny the Elder both claim that Sulla was the first of the Cornelii to have undergone this practice. Ian Morris has argued that a return to this practice in late 8th-century Athens is a sign of elite domination over the rest. In Imperial Rome, members of clubs who underwent this practice would be allocated individual (*) niches in columbaria. (10[2]-5[1])Herodotus tells a story comparing the practice of consumption of their fathers by an Indian group called the Callatiae with this practice done by Greeks. After Trajan and his wife had undergone this process, two golden urns were placed in his Column. Often contrasted with inhumation, (10[1])for 10 points, name this funerary practice sometimes performed on a pyre. (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: cremation [accept word forms or clear equivalents; accept burning bodies; do not accept or prompt on answers relating to burial]
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