The stone coffins, usually called sarcophagi, were of oblong shape, having flat straight sides, like a box, with a curved or pointed lid. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Uraeus cartouche canopic ankh was faience ba ka sarcophagi shabti. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference
Many beautiful sarcophagi are in the Vatican at Rome. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
In 1887, his team hit upon more than two dozen sarcophagi. From Wordnik.com. [Who’s in the Alexander Sarcophagus?] Reference
These are sometimes sunk, so as to resemble rock-cut sarcophagi. From Wordnik.com. [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference
Also anthropoid pottery sarcophagi, an idea imported from Egypt. From Wordnik.com. [How to Observe in Archaeology] Reference
Nothing in the Catacombs or on the sarcophagi depicts Christ's death. From Wordnik.com. [From Humble to Sumptuous:] Reference
Many traces of their occupation have been found, including several sarcophagi. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
Grecian sarcophagi fitted into the walls, and this garden of so intense a green. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The coffins or sarcophagi in which they lay were in many cases of exquisite workmanship. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
One of eighteen splendid sarcophagi discovered in 1887 A.D. in an ancient cemetery at Sidon. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
Wealthy Romans could afford pricey sarcophagi, like the one above depicting Christ's Passion. From Wordnik.com. [From Humble to Sumptuous:] Reference
The chamber was a small, square, walled-up affair, and at one side stood the three sarcophagi. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
The best of the sarcophagi have been removed to the museum in the Château Borély (p. 113). From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
"Perhaps you mean sarcophagi," Jessie suggested, loftily, while the others laughed at her discomfiture. From Wordnik.com. [Lucile Triumphant] Reference
On the ground-floor of the picture gallery are sarcophagi, inscriptions, and statues ancient and modern. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The reliefs of triumphal arches and of sarcophagi are crowded with figures inserted without order or method. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
They are in the shape of tombs or sarcophagi, the form generally adopted for altars in the sixteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
Unlike most sarcophagi, the artifact Dr. Rax examined had no lid but rather a sliding stone panel in one narrow end. From Wordnik.com. [Blood Lines]
Museums overflow with statues, weapons, costumes, thrones, coins and sarcophagi commemorating ancient generals and kings. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Wagler: Ancient Empires and Conquerors: Reflections on my recent trip to Turkey, Greece and Italy] Reference
They are apparently either too powerful, or have spent so much time in the sarcophagi that the affects can not be reversed. From Wordnik.com. [chsturtle Diary Entry] Reference
There were two elaborate reproductions of sarcophagi placed in an upright position, one on each side of the main lobby doors. From Wordnik.com. [All Together Dead]
Betrout, and that the broken columns, marble slabs, sarcophagi, and other ruins indicate that it was once a flourishing city. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
The central room contains sarcophagi, urns and statuary in marble, alabaster, porous tufa and other kinds of stone, and clay. From Wordnik.com. [Etruscan Treasures From Tuscany] Reference
Many sculptured sarcophagi have been found within the crypts, and in the crypts of the churches connected with the cemeteries. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
“No doubt the reason for all those tiny sarcophagi is that those who revere the Punic gods also love little children dearly.”. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
The +Centre Hall+ contains idols, jewellery, amulets, sarcophagi, mummies, Egyptian heads with the hair on, and bricks made by the. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
All the sarcophagi and recesses had been rifled and the mummies taken to museums, but some still contained large quantities of bones. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
It might have been their surroundings — sarcophagi, Egyptian busts — that gave the word such a hollow sound when Schoenberg said it. From Wordnik.com. [the dirty duck]
Lasota straddled the boundary between art and furniture: she enclosed antique tables and a mirror in heavy polarized-glass "sarcophagi.". From Wordnik.com. [Design: Home Sweet Home] Reference
Several other sarcophagi belonging to members of the family were found at the same time, along with two busts, one of which is supposed to be that of the poet. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
In some places we observed ancient sarcophagi, hewn into solid rock without being entirely detached, they had therefore been left unfinished, though partly ornamented. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
I pass over, as not belonging to this subject, the more recent discovery by others near the town in 1855 of the two sarcophagi, one of them bearing a Phoenician inscription. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
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