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	COFFIN - LoveToKnow Article on COFFIN
		The Egyptian coffins, or sarcophagi, as they have been improperly called, are the largest stone coffins known and are generally highly polished and covered with hieroglyphics, usually a history of the deceased.
		This type of coffin, more or less modified by planing, was used in medieval Britain by those of the better classes who could not afford stone, but the poor were buried without coffins, wrapped simply in cloth or even covered only with hay and flowers.
		The coffins used in England to-day are generally of elm or oak lined with lead, or with a leaden shell so as to delay as far as possible the process of disintegration and decomposition.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CO/COFFIN.htm (1138 words)

	Stone Age Of Scandinavia
		The length of the stone coffin is generally from 8 to 13* feet, width 35 to 60 inches, and height or depth 2 to 5 feet.
		In the partition stone, between the grave proper and the inner room, was found a rounded opening, 2 feet in width; the out-side of this opening was closed by a kind of door, consisting of a smaller flat slab, kept in place by round stones.
		The large coffin, and the one in the top of the mound, and one of the two other small coffins, contained, besides the bones, antiquities from the bronze age; and there is no doubt that the other three also belong to the saine period.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles31n/scandinavia-29.shtml (6313 words)

	Stone
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	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/stone.html (2301 words)

	The Coffin Stone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It was here that he coffin would be rested to allow the bearers to get their breath back.
		On the stone various initials and crosses have been engraved these are the initials of the dead whose coffins have rested on the stone.
		The coffin ignited and both it and the corpse were cremated on the spot.
	members.aol.com /dartmoorlander/dartmoor/coffinstone.htm (208 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - COFFIN: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It appears, however, that the coffin was originally used for the purpose of transporting a corpse to a distant place of burial; and whenever the cortège passed, the mourning regulations were observed by the multitude (M. 25a).
		The opening of the coffin was accompanied by prayers and ceremonial apologies to the dead for being disturbed.
		The almost universal former custom of putting the dead in a plain, unpainted wooden coffin covered with fl cloth has been abandoned in modern times; and distinction is made, much against Jewish tradition, between rich persons and poor by more or less decorated coffins.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=576&letter=C (697 words)

	Great Tottington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is also the site of a spring, around which are scattered numerous sarsen stones which may be the remains of a Neolithic monument and part of the Medway megaliths.
		Theories that the stones are the remains of a stone circle or avenue have been suggested.
		If the stones are prehistoric however, it is more likely that they were brought from the nearby site of the chambered long barrow known as the Coffin Stone.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Tottington (337 words)

	Coffin Stone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Coffin Stone is the name given to a megalith near Aylesford in the English county of Kent.
		It is a rectangular sarsen stone lying flat and measuring 4.4m long and 2.8m wide.
		Two much smaller stones lie nearby and the outline of the former barrow has been identified.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coffin_Stone (141 words)

	Northern Earth - Paths Of The Soul
		Almost at the summit of the fell is a coffin stone where the coffin rested during the journey.
		A stone platform with a hole through the middle where the Court Thorn grew marked the spot where for hundreds of years the manorial court was held.
		SW of Coniston, and though a chapel came with the founding in the 12th century of the priory of Conishead, it was not consecrated as a church until 1884.
	www.northernearth.co.uk /68corpse.htm (924 words)

	Nealithic Tombs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is thought that there were originally about 50 stones forming a peristalith, and that the mound would have been about 60 meters long and 11-14 meters wide, tapering in towards the west.
		It is thought that the stone marks the chamber of a long-barrow, as the outline of a mound is still there.
		The name means "stone of the hole" and the round stone in the middle of this configuration has quite a lot of folklore attached to it.
	www.fugglefamily.com /Naturalhistory.htm (1318 words)

	Jerusalem Burial Cave Reveals Names, Testimonies of First Christians
		A "head stone", found near the entrance to the first century catacomb, is inscribed with the sign of the cross.
		A first-century coffin bearing cross marks as it was found by archaeologist P. Bagatti in the catacomb on the Mt. of Olives.
		The monogram was written - according to the inscription - on the coffin of a non-Jew, a "proselyte" - that is a pagan who converted to Judaism and Christianity and was later buried in Jerusalem.
	www.leaderu.com /theology/burialcave.html (1403 words)

	sarcophagus - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The word comes to us from Latin and Greek, having been derived in Greek from sarx, "flesh," and phagein, "to eat." The Greek word sarkophagos meant "eating flesh," and in the phrase lithos ("stone") sarkophagos it denoted a limestone that was thought to decompose the flesh of corpses placed in it.
		Used by itself as a noun the Greek term came to mean "coffin." The term was carried over into Latin, where sarcophagus was used in the phrase lapis ("stone") sarcophagus, referring to the same stone as in Greek.
		Sarcophagus used as a noun in Latin meant "coffin of any material." This Latin word was borrowed into English, first being recorded in 1601 with reference to the flesh-consuming stone and then in 1705 with reference to a stone coffin.
	www.yourdictionary.com /ahd/s/s0089800.html (182 words)

	The girl in the lead coffin
		The fact that her family went to such expense to ensure the preservation of the remains is an indication of the esteem in which she must have been held.
		When the lead coffin is opened, the skeleton is expected to be surrounded by white powder, the remnants of a plaster-and-chalk mix that was used as a disinfectant.
		When an intact lead coffin, its top covered in a thin layer of mud thought to be the remnants of flowers and branches, was found, the archaeologists were stunned.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/03/22/tlcof22.html (1304 words)

	Nottinghamshire: history and archaeology \| Miscellaneous articles: First annual meeting 1897: Car Colston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Great interest was taken in the stone coffin of Dr. Thoroton himself, which stands at the west end of the north aisle in what is at present a curtained vestry.
		For upwards of 160 years Dr. Thoroton's body rested unviolated in its oaken and stone chests, but in 1845, while the chancel was undergoing repair, the stone coffin was discovered not far from the surface of the ground, and opened.
		There were some large bones found in it, which were placed in a smaller stone coffin, found at the same time by the side of Dr. Thoroton's, and supposed to be his wife's.
	www.nottshistory.org.uk /articles/summerexcursion1897/carcolston.htm (729 words)

	Egyptian Sarcophagus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Scholars believe that early limestone coffins had the properties to dissolve the body quickly, hence the translation of sarcophagus to "flesh eater." The earliest stone coffins in use among the Egyptians of the 3rd Dynasty were designed to represent palaces of mud brick architecture, with an ornamental arrangement of false doors and windows.
		In the 17th Dynasty coffins shaped to resemble the human form with a carved portrait head of pasted papyrus sheets and (later) wood, pottery, or stone were used.
		In the 18-20th Dynasties, the upper classes enclosed inner coffins of wood or metal in stone outer sarcohphagi, a practice that continued to the Ptolemaic period.
	www.dl.ket.org /humanities/connections/class/ancient/coffin.htm (259 words)

	The Hill Of Borge
		Inside there is a 3,5 meter stone coffin made of flat rocks.
		These kind of coffins were made during the younger Stone Age to the beginning of the Bronze Age.
		The dead were berried unburnt, and each coffin has been through several funerals and corps.
	www.hultsfred.se /english/borge.htm (258 words)

	Stone Pages Archaeo News: Ancient stone-coffin tombs discovered in Tibet
		The discovery of stone coffins, first of its kind found in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze, a major Tibetan habitat inwest Sichuan since ancient times, proved other ethnic groups also lived in the area before as Tibetan seldom use stone coffins for burial, said Chen Zujun, an expert from the provincial archaeological research institute.
		The coffins were about 1.8 meters long and one to 1.5 meters wide and the coffin cover is made up of three to five pieces of stone slate.
		"The coffin owners may be from a branch of the tribe, which moved from the north," he said, adding they also found 140 relics, including stoneware, bronze wares and potteries, which proved the tombs made up a cemetery of a tribe relying on handicraft industry.
	www.stonepages.com /news/archives/001401.html (312 words)

	Pravda.RU Sensation: Apostle Jacob’s Coffin Made by Aliens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Andre Lemer said after a certain period of study that it was impossible to determine the composition of the stone.
		The professor stated that the coffin was made of a material that does not exist on planet Earth.
		The coffin was made in the shape of other coffins, but the aliens made it of their own material, from their planet.
	english.pravda.ru /main/2002/11/14/39518.html (3055 words)

	Sarkopage
		Sarkopage is a stone coffin, consists of a container and the lid.
		Sarkopage was used as the family coffin or indovidual coffin.
		As the family coffin, the corps were usually buried in turn according to their death time.
	www.petra.ac.id /eastjava/cities/bondo/sarkopage.htm (192 words)

	sarcophagus. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
		A stone coffin, often inscribed or decorated with sculpture.
		Latin, from Greek sarkophagos, coffin, from (lithos) sarkophagos, limestone that consumed the flesh of corpses laid in it : sarx, sark-, flesh + -phagos, -phagous.
		Sarcophagus, our term for a stone coffin located above ground and often decorated, has a macabre origin befitting a macabre thing.
	www.bartleby.com /61/98/S0089800.html (248 words)

	4th-graders leave their mark at Levi Coffin House.
		Visiting the Coffin House is an annual event for Kosten and her fourth-grade classes.
		She was so sure that the students would succeed that she mailed a check to the Levi Coffin House Association for the stone with the hopes it would be completed before the end of the school year; giving the students a chance to see a photograph of it.
		Because of a school year lengthened by snow days, the students were still in school when their stone was finished.
	www.waynet.org /topical/news/7-22-99coffin-donate.htm (634 words)

	Belmont Club
		There were flowers in his hands and the coffin, with flowers, which had been sent early in the morning by Lise Hohlakov.
		The boys, seeing that the father would not leave the coffin and that it was time to carry it out, stood round it in a close circle and began to lift it up.
		Ilusha's Stone This is a holy memory from childho...
	belmontclub.blogspot.com /2004/09/ilushas-stone-this-is-holy-memory-from.html (2169 words)

	Stone coffin for Arafat
		The coffin of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is loaded into a military helicopter at the Percy Military Teaching Hospital in Clamart, outside Paris.
		Ramallah - Yasser Arafat will be buried at his West Bank headquarters in a stone coffin, not a wooden one, to allow his re-interment at a later time in Jerusalem, top aides said on Thursday.
		Azzam al-Ahmed, another Fatah official, said Arafat would be buried in a stone coffin to allow him to be re-interred at a later time at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, Islam's third holiest shrine.
	www.news24.com /News24/AnanziArticle/0,,2-10-1462_1619353,00.html (340 words)

	Daily Excelsior... World
		The coffin, measuring more than two metres in length and half a metre in width, was found at the Qazian area of the city which was the site of a cemetery dating back to 200 years BC, Ranjbaran said.
		The dimensions of this coffin are larger than the other ancient clay coffins discovered in Hamedan, Ranjbaran said, adding these baked clay coffins were fortified with straw stands and not enamelled.
		Over the parts of the coffin that cover the head and the shoulders, there are tooth-like decorations engraved on the stone cover.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /00nov18/inter.htm (1855 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The other coffin is similar to the first, slightly larger and carved out of a fl granite much like the bricks that make up the castle itself.
		His long, matted, white hair is sprawled out across the stone bottom of the coffin, small wisps of it lying across his once handsome face now shrunken into an aged atrocity, with sunken cheek bones and shriveled blue lips that expose enamel white gnarled fangs stained with dried blood.
		Her flesh is almost the color of the white marble of the coffin, With rose-pink nipples and lips.
	www.angelfire.com /az2/silence/nyram.html (9421 words)

	Season Sarcophagus Lesson Plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The deceased person is depicted on this sarcophagus, or coffin, at the moment of his entrance into eternal life.
		The variety of textures sculpted in stone on the human form, wings of the angels, and curls of the hair show the craftsmanship and ability of the artists.
		These stone coffins were used as burial tombs for the deceased.
	umfa.dev.verite.com /?id=MjM5 (1067 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		"stone coffin," 1601, from L. sarcophagus, from Gk.
		The stone sense was the earliest in Eng,; meaning "stone coffin, often with inscriptions or decorative carvings" is recorded from 1705.
		is 1525; before that it was literal and had also a meaning of "pie crust." Coffin nail "cigarette" is slang from 1880.
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=sarcophagus&searchmode=phrase (110 words)

	Archaeology and Early History: Roman Dartford
		Several stone and lead coffins retrieved from the site suggest that at least some members of Dartford's Roman community were quite wealthy; only the rich could have afforded such a luxury.
		When discovered and opened early in the nineteenth century, this stone coffin, complete with heavy stone cover, was found to contain the body of a woman.
		In 1973, a child's stone coffin was found buried in the grounds of East Hill House.
	www.dartfordarchive.org.uk /early_history/romans.shtml (664 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The stone is one of country's most cherished cultural objects and recalls a gathering called two centuries ago to reassert Switzerland's identity in the chaos of Napoleon's Europe.
		Stone, a Lewiston native and businessman, said his focus as Congressman will be to reverse the stunning decline in the 2nd district’s economy; to create a positive environment for jobs; to support President George W. Bush in our on-going, global War on Terror and to lower Federal income taxes.
		Stone warrior delights experts By Paul Rincon BBC News Online science staff The style of the armour is unusual for this area of France Archaeologists are delighted by a 2,500-year-old stone statue that offers a rare insight into life in western Europe before the Roman conquest.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=stone (5336 words)

	The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map: Coffin Stone Chambered Tomb
		The Coffin Stone is the remains of a ruined Neolithic burial chamber.
		The Coffin Stone lies in a field about 400m to the northwest of the countless stones.
		In the field on the opposite side of the road to the Countless Stones can be seen a patch of unploughed land with some large stones present.
	www.megalithic.co.uk /article.php?sid=6947 (1047 words)

	Encarta Reference Suite 99: Sample of Converting Note Cards to HTML
		[Latin, from Greek sarkophagos, coffin, from (lithos) sarkophagos, limestone that consumed the flesh of corpses laid in it : sarx, sark-, flesh + -phagos, -phagous.] Word History: A gruesome name befits a gruesome thing, as in the case of sarcophagus, our term for a stone coffin, often a decorated one, that is located above ground.
		The word comes to us from Latin and Greek, having been derived in Greek from sarx,"flesh," and phagein,"to eat." The Greek word sarkophagos meant "eating flesh," and in the phrase lithos ("stone") sarcophagos denoted a limestone that was thought to decompose the flesh of corpses placed in it.
		The Greek term used by itself as a noun then came to mean "coffin." The term was carried over into Latin, where sarcophagus was used in the phrase lapis ("stone") sarcophagus, referring to the same stone as in Greek.
	goinside.com /98/10/ers99a.html (876 words)

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