Sarcophagi in a sentence

Egypt announced Saturday the discovery of an ancient treasure trove of more than a 100 intact sarcophagi, dating back more than 2,500 years ago, the largest such find this year.

The painted sarcophagi are said to be in very good condition.

An archaeological mission in Minya, southern Egypt also a 2,000-year-old cemetery that contained sarcophagi of different shapes and sizes.

Another example is archaeological uses such as imaging the contents of sarcophagi.

Coins, sarcophagi, and ceramics are also numerous.

During the 4th and 3rd centuries, the sculptures of the sarcophagi became works of art.

His Deposition of Christ draws on classical sarcophagi to spread the figures across the front of the picture space in a complex and not wholly successful arrangement.

History A 1367 tempera on wood by Niccolò Semitecolo Tempera painting has been found on early Egyptian sarcophagi decorations.

In its center lies a sunken circular crypt with two marble sarcophagi, one for MacArthur,sfn the other for Jean, who continued to live in the Waldorf Towers until her own death in 2000.

In the Eleusinian mysteries her return is the symbol of immortality and hence she was frequently represented on sarcophagi.

It is unknown whether the sarcophagi therein contained the bodies of the members of the Theodosian dynasty, or when they were placed in the building.

Particularly strong in this tradition were figurative sculpture in terracotta (particularly life-size on sarcophagi or temples), wall-painting and metalworking (especially engraved bronze mirrors).

The jars are stone sarcophagi dating from the early Iron Age (500BCE to 800CE) and contained evidence of human remains, burial goods and ceramics.

The most famous practitioners were ancient Egyptians many nobles and highly ranked bureaucrats had their corpses embalmed and stored in luxurious sarcophagi inside their funeral mausoleums.

There is no reference to such descent in the works of Bahāʾ-e Walad and Mawlānā Jalāl-al-Dīn or in the inscriptions on their sarcophagi.

The same workshops produced sarcophagi with Jewish or Christian imagery.

The sarcophagi are in terracotta or tufa.

The sarcophagus is oriented with Jadwiga's feet pointing west, unlike all the other sarcophagi in the cathedral.

These sarcophagi are left exposed, with no attempt to bury the dead in the ground.

This way of erecting sarcophagi above ground is not as common as umqan and cave burials, but it is still widespread.