Meanings
- pluralrareplural of sarcophagus
Most of the catacombs contain 7 sarcophagusses, 3 on each side, and 1 at the farther end.
1812 May, Jedidiah Morse, The American Universal Geography; or A View of the Present State of All the Kingdoms, States, and Colonies in the Known World, 6th edition, volume II, Boston, Mass.: […] Thomas & Andrews, […], page 4335 more examples
An old ſepulchral apartment without the porta præneſtina, (or maggiore) about four miles from Rome, in which were four ſarcophaguſſes, adorned with very curious relievos, two of them large and two ſmall: […]
1760 August, The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, volume XXX, London: […] D. Henry, and R. Cave, […], page 363, column 1The tombs, decorated by the wonders of the fine arts, do not present death under a formidable aspect. It is not altogether like the ancients, who engraved dances and games upon their sarcophagusses; but the mind is abstracted from the contemplation of a coffin, by the chefs-d’œuvres of genius.
1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book IV. Rome.] Chap[ter] III.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume I, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 184In and about the choir are several remarkable monuments; one, in copper, of the Archbishop Conrad Hochstaden; the silver coffin of St. Engelbert, curiously chased, and the marble sarcophagusses of the Electors Adolphus III and Anthony.
1817, Charles Campbell, “From Aix-la-Chapelle to Frankfort—Description of Cologne—Bonn—Coblentz—Mausoleum of General Marceau—Baths of Wisbaden—Limburg—Excursion to Seltzer—Frankfort—Mentz”, in The Traveller’s Complete Guide through Belgium & Holland; […], 2nd edition, London: […] Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], pages 143–144But the holy three kings who formerly lay / So still and never made fusses, / Here they were sitting bolt upright / Atop of their sarcophagusses.
1876, Heinrich Heine, translated by Thomas Selby Egan, Atta Troll and Other Poems, London: Chapman and Hall, […], page 246Most all the texts were taken from the pyramids of Memphis; the figures are the same found on the sarcophagusses of the XIth and XIIth dynasties.
1900 September, “Recent Excavations in Egypt”, in Biblia. A Monthly Journal of Oriental Research in Archæology, Ethnology, Literature, Religion, History, Epigraphy, Geography, Languages, etc., volume XIV, number 6, Meriden, Conn., page 178
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