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Description A close view of a sarcophagus. The main tank was elaborately engraved and decorated with a lot of that fascinating Greek- Roman script. A sarcophagus (plural, sarcophagi) is a box-like funeral receptacle for a corpse, most commonly carved in stone, and displayed above ground, though it may also be buried. The word 'sarcophagus' comes from the Greek σάρξ sarx meaning 'flesh', and φαγεῖν phagein meaning 'to eat', hence sarcophagus means 'flesh-eating'; from the phrase lithos sarkophagos (λίθος σαρκοφάγος). Since lithos is Greek for stone, lithos sarcophagos means "flesh-eating stone". The word also came to refer to a particular kind of limestone that was thought to decompose the flesh of corpses interred within it. (Denizli/ Pamukkale, Turkey, Nov. 2014)
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