A tomb. One might also think of a sarcophagus, but traditionally the corpse was placed without a wooden casket into the stone sarcophagus.
stone coffin in which wood coffin was placed
sarcophagus
A sarcophagus!!!! The stone coffin in which a wood coffin was placed is a sarcophagus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sarcophagus
Sarcophagus
They put the mummified dead into a coffin made of wood (sometimes into several coffins), which were richly decorated, and the coffin (or coffins) was put into a sarcophagus which was made of stone.
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It was called a sarcophagus (Latin- "flesh eater"), hence the wooden coffin fit inside the stone receptacle.
The stone container of a wooden coffin was called a sarcophagus.
King Tutankhaten had 4 coffins. They were all made of wood, which was then heavily decorated on the outside with both paint and gold leaf. One of Tut's coffins was made partly of gold. That was the coffin that they put Tut in when he died. The head of that coffin was made of pure gold decorated with stones and colored glass.
A vault. Some states require one in addition to a wooden or cardboard casket to prevent erosion once the wood or other type casket starts to degrade. There are "Green cemetaries/burials where natural wood or fiber materials are used. A stone coffin from the Egyptian pyramids is called a Sarcophagus.
A sarcophagus