| has gloss | eng: Ancient Roman sarcophagi were the often richly-carved sarcophagi used for inhumation of the dead by the ancient Romans. In Rome the use of sarcophagi had only a few precedents in the Republican era (when cremation was more widespread) and mainly spread from the early 2nd century, when cremation was abandoned in favour of burial as the majority burial practice. |
| lexicalization | eng: Ancient roman sarcophagi |
| subclass of | (noun) a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions)
sarcophagus |
| has instance | e/Dogmatic Sarcophagus |
| has instance | e/Early Christian sarcophagi |
| has instance | e/Grande Ludovisi sarcophagus |
| has instance | e/Mattei sarcophagus I |
| has instance | e/Portonaccio sarcophagus |
| has instance | e/Sarcophagus of the Triumph of Bacchus (Lyon) |
| has instance | e/es/Sarcofago de Elena |
| has instance | e/it/Sarcofago Amendola |
| has instance | e/it/Sarcofago Torlonia |
| has instance | e/it/Sarcofago del Buon Pastore (Monza) |
| has instance | e/it/Sarcofago dell'Annona |
| has instance | e/it/Sarcofago di Acilia |
| has instance | e/it/Sarcofago di Audasia Cales |
| has instance | e/it/Sarcofago di Caius Bellicus Natalis Tebanianus |
| has instance | e/it/Sarcofago di Costantina |
| has instance | e/it/Sarcofago di Iulius Achilleus |
| has instance | e/it/Sarcofago di Marte e Rea Silvia |
| has instance | e/it/Sarcofago di Plotino |
