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Definition of Sarcophaguses
1. sarcophagus [n] - See also: sarcophagus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sarcophaguses
Literary usage of Sarcophaguses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Account of the Statues, Busts, Bass-relieves, Cinerary Urns, and Other by Henry Blundell (1803)
"sarcophaguses AND CINERARY URNS. IT was usual with the ancients to burn the bodies
of their deceased friends, and to deposite their remains in urns, ..."
2. Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias (1898)
"Just outside of the west wall, and close to the spring, are some half-dozen
sarcophaguses perched on the rocks ; each of them is hewn out of a single piece ..."
3. Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias, James George Frazer (1898)
"The sloping ground to the left of the road is strewn with ancient remains,
consisting of sarcophaguses and their lids, sepulchres hewn in the rock with ..."
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