What is a sarcophagus?

Answer 1

A sarcophagus is a stone container for a coffin or body. The word comes from Greek "sarx" meaning "flesh", and "phagein" meaning "to eat", so sarcophagus means "eater of flesh"....

Sarcophagi were usually made by being carved, decorated or built ornately. Some were built to be freestanding above ground, as a part of an elaborate tomb or tombs. Others were made for burial, or were placed in crypts. In ancient Egypt, a sarcophagus was usually the external layer of protection for a royal mummy, with several layers of coffins nested within.
Sarcophagus: a coffin-like structure, hollow, used as a way to respect the dead by egyptians

Answer 2

kind of like a casket, a sarcophagus was used to lay pharaohs and other wealthy people to rest, usually designed and painted in the likeness of a human and golden. the pharaoh's mummified corpse would be placed in it, with some things they thought would help the dead in the afterlife. the organs were placed in canopic jars, which were put in the tomb elsewhere

Answer 3

They didn't. The word sarcophagus is Greek, not Egyptian and it was applied later by visitors to Egypt.

In hieroglyphs a sarcophagus is called Drwt (related to the word meaning walls or enclosure), or DbAt (which also means a dressing-room), or nb Anx ("Lord of Life", referring to the spirit of the deceased person living in the afterlife).

Answer 4

A sarcophagus is a stone container that usually houses a coffin and an Egyptian mummy. The word 'sarcophagus' is derived from Greek words "sarx" meaning "flesh", and "phagien" meaning "to eat". derived from a Greek word for "flesh-eating"). Early forms were made of limestone which had the property of consuming the bodies placed in limestone coffins which the Greeks called sarcophagus lithos (flesh-eating stone). The name sarcophagus was eventually applied to stone coffins in general which were not sunk underground. The Egyptian interpretation of the word was the 'possessor of life' whereas we would believe the interpretation should be more akin to 'possessor of death'. The Ancient Egyptian interpretation of 'possessor of life' relates to their belief in the afterlife and that the deceased would eventually be reborn.

Answer 5

An Egyptian sarcophagus was the "coffin" used for the dead Pharaohs.

Answer 6

A sarcophagus is a type of coffin used in Ancient Egypt. They were often beautifully decorated to look like the person inside, or carved from stone.

Answer 7

A Sarcphagus Is A Stone Coffin.

Answer 8

they used it because of the dead

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