SARCOPHAGUS (sarcophagi)

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Irregular inflected form: sarcophagi   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does sarcophagus mean? 

• SARCOPHAGUS (noun)
  The noun SARCOPHAGUS has 1 sense:

1. a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions)

  Familiarity information: SARCOPHAGUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SARCOPHAGUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("sarcophagus" is a kind of...):

casket; coffin (box in which a corpse is buried or cremated)

 Context examples 

In April, archaeologists unearthed several mummies, 10 colourful wooden sarcophagi and more than 1,000 funerary statues near the city of Luxor.

(Egypt Announces Discovery of 3,500-Year-Old Luxor Tomb, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Inside the tomb, archaeologists wearing white masks and latex gloves inspected the sarcophagi, which were covered with intricate drawings in red, blue, black, green, and yellow - and featured the carved faces of the dead.

(Egypt Announces Discovery of 3,500-Year-Old Luxor Tomb, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)