sarcophagus

• a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions)
• A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia
• A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above
• A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial

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