Sarcophagus

sarcophagus|sarcophagus The French word sarcophagus comes from the Latin sarcophagus indicating the tomb. It is about a substantivized use of the adjective sarcophagus which means “which consumes the flesh”. The Latin word is of Greek origin where lithographies sarcophagus indicated a stone (calcareous) used for ancient burials and which, according to the beliefs of the time, the disappearance of the flesh hastened (destroyed the not incinerated corpses); sarx , sarcos means “flesh, meat”; phagein is used to supplement the verb esthein which means “to eat, to devour”.

The word sarcophagus, after having apparently indicated in the Antiquity all the funerary receptacles, gives in French about the year the 1050 word Cercueil (by a strong phonetic reduction), which one uses to speak about a lengthened trunk in which one deposits the body before burying it, whereas the word sarcophagus is used as of the 17th century to indicate the stone coffins.

In old Egypt, the sarcophagus is named “ neb ânkh ”, which in literal translation means main life , and its form symbolizes a boat.

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  • the kind Sarcophaga : Sarcophaga carnaria : the gray fly of the meat or fly with checkerwork

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