sarcophagi
- plural of sarcophagus.
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Among the bronze and marble objects are portraits, over-life-size figures, sarcophagi reliefs and animal sculptures.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025
The boy-king's priceless collection is yet to be displayed, but visitors can now see items varying from pharaonic statues to sarcophagi and mummified bodies.
From BBC • Oct. 16, 2024
But he also bought dolls’ houses, sarcophagi, historic record players, an apartment-size model circus, letters, photographs and the mahogany desk on which President John F. Kennedy signed a partial ban on nuclear testing in 1963.
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2023
The sarcophagi will be transferred to the new Grand Egyptian Museum, due to open near the famed Giza Pyramids outside Cairo in November, for display.
From Washington Post • May 31, 2022
Here in the shop only great sarcophagi were built, and blocks of stone roughhewn to size, ready for the sculptors.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
