Sarcophagus

The French word comes from the sarcophagus Latin designating the tomb. It is a noun use of the adjective which means sarcophagus "which consumes the flesh." The Latin word is Greek lithos sarcophagus which meant a stone (limestone) for ancient tombs which, according to the beliefs of the time, hastened the demise of the flesh (not destroy the bodies cremated); sarx, Sarcos means "flesh, meat" is used to supplement phagein esthein the verb meaning "eat, eat."

The word sarcophagus, after apparently named in the ancient burial containers all, given in French to the year 1050 the word coffin (by a significant reduction in phonetics), used to talk about a safe in which elongated lay the body before burial, while the word sarcophagus is used from the ^seventeenth century to denote the stone coffins.

In ancient Egypt , the tomb is named "neb ankh," which literally translated means the master of life, and its shape symbolizes a boat.

During the era Etruscan Italy pre-Roman times, at various times, the sarcophagus is a traditional destination ( burial ) or cineraria (same shape but smaller for the ashes of death obtained by cremation ).

Related articles

• Early Christian sarcophagi
• Sarcophagi of Arles
• Sarcophagus of the triumph of Bacchus , inspiration Dionysian

See also

• the genus Sarcophaga: Sarcophaga Carnaria : Fly gray meat fly or checkered