Sarcophagus, stone. The original term is of doubtful meaning. Pliny explains that the word denotes a coffin of from the Troad (the region around Troy) which had the property of dissolving the body quickly (Greek sarx, “flesh,” and phagein, “to eat”), but this explanation is questionable; religious and folkloristic ideas may have been involved in calling a coffin a body eater. The word came into general use as the name for a large coffin in imperial Rome and is now used as an archaeological term.
Sarcophagus fragment Sarcophagus fragment, carved marble, Israel(?), 3rd–4th century ce; in the Jewish Museum, New York City. 42 × 55.6 × 6 cm. Photograph by Katie Chao. The Jewish Museum, New York City, gift of Daniel M. Friedenberg, 2002-46The earliest stone coffins in use among the of the 3rd ( c.
2650–2575 bce) were designed to represent palaces of mud-brick architecture, with an ornamental arrangement of false doors and windows. Beginning in the 11th dynasty ( c. 2081 bce), boxlike sarcophagi of wood or limestone were in use in Egypt and on the Lebanese coast at Byblos. In the 17th dynasty ( c. 1630–1540 bce), anthropoid coffins (shaped to resemble the human form with a carved portrait head) of pasted papyrus sheets and, later, of wood, pottery, or stone were used.
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In the case of royalty, some were made of solid gold (Tutankhamen) or silver (Psussenes I). In the 18th–20th ( c. 1539–1075 bce), the upper classes enclosed inner coffins of wood or metal in stone outer sarcophagi, a practice that continued into the Ptolemaic period.
Facial reconstruction; Etruscan art See how the skull of Seianti, an Etruscan noblewoman who lived about 250–150 bce, is used in the reconstruction of her facial appearance. Then compare the work of the modern-day forensic-medical artist with the face of the sculpted figure on the sarcophagus in which the skull was found.
© Open University In the area, although not on the Greek mainland, rectangular terra-cotta coffins (larnakes) with elaborate painted designs came into general use in Middle Minoan times ( c. Sometimes these coffins resembled houses or bathtubs with large handles.
The developed a white marble anthropoid sarcophagus of the Egyptian type in the 5th century bce, and in Hellenistic times they specialized in making leaden coffins and elaborately carved marble sarcophagi. In Italy from about 600 bce onward the used both stone and terra-cotta sarcophagi, and after 300 bce sculptured sarcophagi were used by the. These often had carved figures of the deceased reclining on the couch-shaped lids. Roman sarcophagus; Dionysus Marble sarcophagus depicting the Triumph of Dionysus and the Seasons, Phrygian marble, Roman, c. 260–270 ce; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. The central figure is Dionysus, seated on the back of a panther. In the left foreground are the male figures representing Winter and Spring, and to the right of Dionysus are the male figures representing Summer and Fall.
The remaining figures shown are other objects and personages associated with the Bacchic cult. Photograph by Margaret Pierson. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1955 (55.11.5)This article was most recently revised and updated by, Assistant Editor.
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