The museum houses a wealth of fascinating relics including a unique sarcophagus dated around AD 900. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
You could use some sun and that sarcophagus is starting get a little stuffy. From Wordnik.com. [Some Days...I Just Want To Slap Someone] Reference
This mask of Rameses II., from the lid of his wooden sarcophagus, is in the Museum of Ghizeh. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers] Reference
MR. PONEMAN: Our view on the second skin or what is sometimes called the sarcophagus issue -- (laughter) -- I didn't make it up. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing On Presidents Trip To Russia] Reference
A "sarcophagus" -- a steel and concrete shell built soon after the disaster to contain the radiation is increasingly unstable. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: April 16, 2006 - April 22, 2006 Archives] Reference
Connected to the sarcophagus was the more presentable Reactor Two, which was invisible. From Wordnik.com. [Wolves Eat Dogs]
Close beside the sarcophagus was a low table of green stone with red veins in it, like bloodstone. From Wordnik.com. [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference
In the sarcophagus was the wooden coffin of the monarch, and on the lid of the coffin was his name. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Egypt] Reference
They also built a structure, called a sarcophagus, to cover the shattered reactor and its radioactive fuel. From Wordnik.com. [english.chosun.com : Total] Reference
King Tut at the AGO Totally disappointed in the exhibit today as not seeing the sarcophagus was a real let down. From Wordnik.com. [blogTO] Reference
Leaning against the sarcophagus was a wooden rack containing several earthenware amphorae; on the floor about it was. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Each lies in his narrow sarcophagus, which is commonly flanked by huge candles, and covered with a rich embroidered pall. From Wordnik.com. [Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo] Reference
It also contains Alexander the Great's sarcophagus, which is regarded as one of the finest examples of Greek art in existence. From Wordnik.com. [A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel] Reference
I already have a candidate for 'to die' in mur attested as a verb and as a base of murś 'sarcophagus'. From Wordnik.com. [Disproving a particular translation of TLE 193 once and for all] Reference
The destroyed unit 4 was enclosed in a concrete shelter ( "sarcophagus"), which now requires remedial work. From Wordnik.com. [Safety of nuclear power reactors] Reference
The shelter will sit over an existing "sarcophagus" encasing the reactor. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News - Home] Reference
"Within the sarcophagus was a body, manifestly of a woman, swathed with many wrappings of linen, as is usual with all mummies. From Wordnik.com. [The Jewel of Seven Stars] Reference
The marble sarcophagus next it contained some bones of the. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
The kneeling angel on the right, and St. Petronius, over the sarcophagus, were by. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
In Sir John Soane's museum is the sarcophagus of Seti I. (Menephtha) B.C. 1322, cut out of. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
When discovered it was supported by brickwork, and near it was a sarcophagus in baked clay. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
I got out of my sarcophagus and prepared to set foot on Japanese soil for the first time in my life. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
See Kim Il Sung's embalmed body laid to rest under a glass sarcophagus in the Kumsusan Memorial Palace. From Wordnik.com. [4 HOURS IN: PYONGYANG] Reference
Her body was afterwards put into the elaborately-carved alabaster sarcophagus on the left side of the altar. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
George II. and Queen Caroline repose in a black marble sarcophagus in the centre of the Chapel of Henry VII. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
In this recess, under the brackets on which the sarcophagus stood, Signorelli has painted one of his most beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Luca Signorelli] Reference
The second chapel on the right contains the tomb of St. Zeta, the patroness of Lucca, in a sarcophagus on the altar. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
This formed the lower part of the now removed sarcophagus, the three stone supports of which still project from the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Luca Signorelli] Reference
Luigi Poggi asserted their right, by reason of what the dead had been to them, to cut and chisel the rock into sarcophagus shape. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
You can take a mummy from its sarcophagus, zoom in for a close-up or remove the mask and see the nicely preserved face beneath it. From Wordnik.com. [Hands-On 3-D Tour] Reference
Vase, which was found in the sixteenth century in the sarcophagus of the so-called tomb of Severus Alexander and of his mother Julia. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
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