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A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.

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The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed reactor at the power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine.

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A kind of limestone used by the Greeks for coffins, so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses.

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An 18th-century form of wine cooler.

He saw before entering that the sarcophagus was gone.

The typical torque is a circlet with twisted rope-like strands, the ends not joined together; the torque was usually worn with the opening in the front as seen in a figure of a Gaul in a sculptured sarcophagus in the Capitoline Museum at Rome.

A painted sarcophagus, found at Hagia Triada, also possibly shows a hero-cult of the dead.

The dead were buried either in the floor (often in a sarcophagus), or, according to later custom, in niches.

The crypt contains several GalloRoman tombs and the sarcophagus (5th century) of St Quitterie.

The church of St Michael, founded by Bishop Bernward early in the 11th century and restored after injury by fire in 1186, contains a unique painted ceiling of the 12th century, the sarcophagus and monument of Bishop Bernward, and a bronze font; it is now a Protestant parish church, but the crypt is used by the Roman Catholics.

This is exemplified in the magnificently sculptured tombs of the Della Scala lords, designed with steadily growing splendour, from the simple sarcophagus of Martino I.

The shrine of St Sebald, in the church of St Sebald, consisting of a bronze sarcophagus and canopy, in the richest Gothic style, adorned with numerous statues and reliefs, is looked upon as one of the greatest achievements of German art.

The term sarcophagus is sometimes applied also to an altar tomb.

In the town ha1l J is a fine Roman sarcophagus found 6.

The sarcophagus and its contents had been removed by early plunderers of the tomb, all that was left being some broken alabaster vases, pottery and charcoal.

Now, like the rest of the facility, the elephant's foot is under the thick concrete sarcophagus.

The luminous trail led toward a large sarcophagus, dominating the oldest part of the graveyard.

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier consists of a granite sarcophagus with a bronze cover.

Here is found the lower part of a marble sarcophagus bearing a picture of Eros.

A couple of weeks ago builders on the Spitalfields development north of the City of London came across a stone sarcophagus.

Also on display are the fragment of a sarcophagus, different kinds of urns and several grave steles.

In 1819, after being temporarily deposited in a stone sarcophagus in the court of the Louvre during the Revolutionary epoch, they were transferred to St Germain-des-Pres, where they now repose between Montfaucon and Mabillon.

Padua claims to be the oldest city in north Italy; the inhabitants pretend to a fabulous descent from the Trojan Antenor, whose relics they recognized in a large stone sarcophagus exhumed in the year 1274.

The terracotta face on the left is from an entire sarcophagus made of fired Nile silt mud.

Now, like the rest of the facility, the elephant 's foot is under the thick concrete sarcophagus.

The top of the lid is surmounted by a fleur-de-lis shaped flange, this same stylized form makes an appearance on the sarcophagus lid.

Of its history, there is mention of it as a herbal preparation in a papyrus taken from the sarcophagus of an Egyptian Pharaoh.

These representations can take many different forms, from statues of mummies to reliefs and paintings of mummies and mummification process to sarcophagus statues that open up to reveal a mummy resting inside.

The chamber beyond was dark, lit by the soft glow of a single torch beside a clear sarcophagus.

Rhyn faced the sarcophagus, surprised to see his father looked as he had when he last saw him thousands of years before.

Sasha chuckled, his gaze taking in the sarcophagus.

Gabriel put the gems away and looked up to see her slight frame standing beside the sarcophagus.

Sasha sat on top of the sarcophagus and looked around, smug in how safe he was sitting on top of the coffin.

He knelt beside the Ancient and set the machete on top of the sarcophagus.

Suspecting some of them remained, he gave no indication he.d found the vial as he carefully lifted Sasha.s body and laid it on the sarcophagus.

Complete scenes of worship in which libations are poured before the Sacred Axes are, moreover, given on a fine painted sarcophagus found at Hagia Triada.

To a period contemporary with the concluding age of the Cnossian palace must be referred a remarkable sarcophagus belonging to a neighbouring cemetery.

His heart, taken from the body when it was embalmed, and given to Madame Denis and by her to Madame de Villette, was preserved in a silver case, and when it was proposed (in 1864) to restore it to the other remains, the sarcophagus at Sainte Genevieve (the Pantheon) was opened and found to be empty.

The sarcophagus in which the body originally lay may still be seen at Aix, and other relics of the great emperor are in the imperial treasury at Vienna.

These include the bronze doors executed by Bishop Bernward, with reliefs from the history of Adam and of Jesus Christ; a brazen font of the 13th century; two large candelabra of the 11th century; the sarcophagus of St Godehard; and the tomb of St Epiphanius.

His sarcophagus, curiously sculptured with palms, fishes, &c., is preserved.

The older and more interesting portions are the royal chapel (1232), with the marble sarcophagus of James II.

On painted vases and sarcophagus bas-reliefs he frequently occurs with Aeacus and Rhadamanthus as judges of the under-world and in connexion with the Minotaur and Theseus.

The tomb of William I., the founder's father - a magnificent porphyry sarcophagus contemporary with the church, under a marble pillared canopy - and the founder William II.'s tomb, erected in 1575, were both shattered by a fire, which in 1811 broke out in the choir, injuring some of the mosaics, and destroying all the fine walnut choir-fittings, the organs, and most of the choir roof.

His house still exists, and his tomb, a sarcophagus supported by four short columns of red marble, stands in front of the church.

The bones of these brothers rest together in a simple stone sarcophagus opposite the tomb of Alberada.

The mummy thus prepared was then laid on its side like a sleeper, the head supported by a head-rest, in a sarcophagus of wood or stone.

The exquisite bas-reliefs on a Lycian sarcophagus now in the museum of Constantinople are among the finest surviving examples of classical art.

The church of San Catervo contains the early Christian sarcophagus of that saint, which is embellished with curious reliefs.

Notable among its seven churches (six Roman Catholic) are the Kloster-Kirche (monasterial), a beautiful Gothic edifice with the sarcophagus of Maria of Brabant, and that of the former Benedictine abbey, Heilig-Kreuz, with a lofty tower.

Still later it is found on the stele of Byblos, and on the sarcophagus of Eshmunazar (about 300 B.C.).

The crypt was added in 1818, when the sarcophagus containing his remains was discovered.

In the chapter-house a famous sarcophagus, with scenes illustrating the myth of Hippolytus, is preserved.

Egyptian dynasty (1326-1300 B.C.), which is carved out of a block of Aragonite or hard carbonate of lime, now in the Soane Museum; of later date are the green porphyry sarcophagus and the terra-cotta sarcophagus from Clazomenae; both of these date from the early 6th century B.C., and are in the British Museum.