I only admired the sepulchre of Mehemet Ali's two sons, in which the bones of his wife also rest: this is a beautiful building of stone; five cupolas rise above the magnificent chambers where the sarcophagi are deposited.
In the Sofia mosque we find a few pillars which have been brought hither from Ephesus and Baalbec, and in a compartment on one side several sarcophagi are deposited.
These chambers are all plain, but some are of very elegant proportions, with arched or pyramidal roofs, and arched recesses at the sides, containing sarcophagi hewn in the solid stone.
Broken sarcophagi lie half-buried in grass, and the gray rocks of the hills are pierced with tombs.
There are fragments of sarcophagi in some of them.
This process was used, as a rule, for the carvings on granite and basalt sarcophagi (Fig.
They are either seated or standing, carved upon the sarcophagi or painted upon the wooden mummy cases.
Those statues and sarcophagi which have been cut from igneous rocks still bear traces which may be recognized by the eye of the connoisseur, of the processes which were employed by their makers.
Not more than five or six inviolate sarcophagi have been found.
It is certain, first, that no authentic piece of mummy cloth from that period is now extant; secondly, that the bones found in the sarcophagi have the brownish colour and the bituminous smell of mummies.
One of them was silent and empty, but in the others the inscriptions and sarcophagi of two kings of the sixth dynasty, Papi and his son Merenzi, were found.
It was not however in this chamber, but in small lateral grottos that several sarcophagi in granite, basalt, white quartz, &c.
The sarcophagi were to support statue-portraits of the Dukes and Popes, with Lorenzo the Magnificent and his brother Giuliano.
It shows a single facet of the monument, with two sarcophagi placed side by side and seated figures at the angles.
But then came the question of filling it with sarcophagi and statues.
At the base, on sarcophagi or cassoni, recline two nude male figures.
Scenes from the history of Susanna carved on sarcophagi are more frequent in France than in Italy.
For Christian sarcophagiwith like symbolism, see 'Art').
Three old Italian sarcophagi have bas-reliefs of Susanna and the Elders as emblematic of the Church enduring persecution; others are known in southern Gaul (D.
Didron assumes that this emblem on the sarcophagi of the Catacombs is simply indicative of the fact that the person buried beneath was by trade a fisherman.
St. Pair and St. Scubilion's sarcophagi were found in 1875, during the excavations made by abbot F.
The sarcophagi were filled with the bones and the dust of the ancient people who had once, in the imperial prime of Rome, walked about her streets, prayed to her gods, and feasted at her banquets.
That crypt with its early Christian sarcophagi is now under the church of St. Maximin, though why that saint is honored in the locality is not known.
Among other interesting relics, sarcophagi were found containing mummified bodies in a marvellous state of preservation.
It was here too that, more than twenty years ago, two quite modest sarcophagi belonging to these Pharaohs were brought to light by some Arabs in search of gold, and unconscious of what a treasure they had found.
No more special monuments for each of the dead, but one common vault for all; no more immense sarcophagi in hard stone, but mere coffins in polished wood, sometimes stolen from earlier kings or private persons.
Under the XVIIIth dynasty, when the use of large rectangular coffins and sarcophagi fell somewhat into disuse, the scribes began to write collections of Chapters from the PER-T EM HRU on rolls of papyri instead of on coffins.
These consist of spells and incantations, hymns and litanies, magical formulae and names, words of power and prayers, and they are found cut or painted on walls of pyramids and tombs, and painted on coffins and sarcophagi and rolls of papyri.
The sarcophagi are inscribed each with the name of the illustrious personage whose ashes they represent the casket of, the remains of the different grand dukes being deposited in a crypt below this chapel.
Sarcophagi are also found in the catacombs, but are of rare occurrence.
The arcade is pierced with sixty-two windows, and contains on its marble pavement hundreds of monuments--among them the Greek sarcophagi studied by Nicola Pisano.
And though now, for some two thousand years, men have set themselves furiously to exhume the sarcophagi and the treasures that are buried here, the subterranean reserves are not yet exhausted.
This is still more striking upon the rarer monumental sarcophagi at Phellos and Myra, where the block-house is carved in the full round from the native rock.
This period is most clearly represented by the lids of three sarcophagi carved in alabaster and a soft stone.
This is first noticeable in the sculptured lids of the sarcophagi of this Hellenistic period.
The finest of the sarcophagi of Jebeil is decorated with festoons, wreaths, single leaves and branches, in a naive style of ornament betraying no knowledge of Greek sculpture.
This condition of things is most strikingly exemplified by the reliefs upon the two sarcophagi of Vulci, the lids of which have been referred to above.
Numerous marble sarcophagifound in Saida are characterized by the confusion of style peculiar to Phoenicia.
The magnificent sarcophagi of white marble recently discovered at Sidon, belonging to the best type of Greek art, are most effectively adorned with different tints and gradations of red and purple, gold being sparingly applied.
The sarcophagi of the Scipios were hollowed out of simple blocks of peperino stone; and the sculptor's art and the material in which he wrought were worthy of the severe simplicity of the heroic age.
Many of the marble sarcophagi were ornamented with beautiful bas-reliefs of mythical incidents, utterly inconsistent, we should suppose, with the purpose for which they were designed.
The Marquis de Chalabre then sold the estate of Ussé, which he had inherited from his father, but he kept the sarcophagi and took them to Paris th his apartment.
About the year 1659 the sarcophagiwere bought for Foucquet, and taken to the Superintendent's house.
But it seems as if the anonymous document referred not to sarcophagi of marble or basalt, but rather to those boxes of painted and gilt pasteboard, with human faces, which abound in the necropolises of ancient Egypt.
La Sauvagère published plates of the sarcophagi and of the hieroglyphics which covered them.
At once absurd and charming is this song which the Gallic lark composed to the sarcophagi of Africa.
Meanwhile, he had had twenty-seven thousand volumes arranged on the shelves of his gallery, around those two sarcophagi the story of which had carried us so far afield from Saint-Mandé and the last days of Mazarin.
As for the sarcophagi themselves, Foucquet had intended to send them to his house at Vaux.
Two sarcophagi have been shipped to England by Lieut.
Drawn by Boudier, from one of the sarcophagi of Sidon, now in the Museum of St. Irene.
Pass some good sarcophagiand other objects, and enter the =Rotonde=, which contains for the most part works of a relatively late period.
Turn to your L just before reaching the last flight, and pass several Etruscan sarcophagi and sarcophagus-shaped funereal urns, many with the deceased and his wife on the lid, accompanied in some cases by protecting genii.
In some of the tombs the sarcophagi were still in place, but all are empty of occupants except one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sarcophagi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
