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Definition of Sarcophagi
1. sarcophagus [n] - See also: sarcophagus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sarcophagi
Literary usage of Sarcophagi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roman Sculpture from Augustus to Constantine by Eugénie Sellers Strong (1907)
"CHAPTER XI HADRIANIC sarcophagi sarcophagi of the Hadrianic and Antonine Periods—
Their artistic value—sarcophagi with the legen.l of Orestes and with the ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"From the beginning burial in sarcophagi was, on account of the expense, ...
As the Christians were obliged at first to buy sarcophagi from heathen ..."
3. A History of European and American Sculpture from the Early Christian Period by Chandler Rathfon Post (1921)
"The Italian qualities that appear in the Roman sarcophagi are not to be discerned.
The forms are not so firmly modelled nor the draperies so successfully ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"With slight changes this type of the two Apostles was always represented in
cemeterial frescoes, mosaics and sculptured sarcophagi, and in fact persista to ..."
5. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Comprising the History, Institutions by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"Our Saviour is almost always represented in mosaics and in the bas-reliefs of
sarcophagi with a volume in his left hand. The volume is shewn unrolled (a) ..."
6. Sculptured Tombs of Hellas by Percy Gardner (1896)
"CHAPTER XV GREEK sarcophagi THE recent great discovery at Sidon of a number of
beautiful sarcophagi executed by Greek artists, and belonging to the best ..."
7. Sculptured Tombs of Hellas by Percy Gardner (1896)
"CHAPTER XV GREEK sarcophagi THE recent great discovery at Sidon of a number of
beautiful sarcophagi executed by Greek artists, and belonging to the best ..."
8. The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria by George Dennis (1878)
"Here, among the scattered sarcophagi, whose recumbent figures accord with the
repose of the scenery, was one which arrested, our attention. ..."
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