noun. A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.

noun. A species of stone used among the Greeks for making coffins. It was called by the Romans lapis Assius, from being found at Assos, a city of the Troad.

noun. A stone coffin, especially one ornamented with sculptures or bearing inscriptions, etc.

noun. A peculiar wine-cooler forming part of a dining-room sideboard about the end of the eighteenth century: it was a dark mahogany box, lined with lead.

noun. A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia.

noun. A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin.

noun. A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial.

noun. A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.

noun. The cement and steel structure that encases the destroyed reactor at the power station in Chernobyl, Ukraine.

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

"A Twelfth Dynasty mummified princess, enclosed for eternity in a huge stone sarcophagus, is about to take a long voyage to Cairo as part of a routine museum exchange."

autosarcophagy  

casket  coffin  

esophagus  

aqueduct  balustrade  bas-relief  buttress  casket  

assian stone  lapis assius  sarcophagi