Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 574
FUNERAL CEREMONIES. 457 easily to be recognised by their large dimensions, their thickness, and theirregular shape (Figs. 352 and 353). They are, so to speak, chests with amassive stone cover, two metres and twenty centimetres (about seven feettwo inches) long, and in some cases more. They are… … Fig. 352.—Stone Coffin discovered during excavations made in the Eue de la Cossonnerie, Pans. In the Cluny Museum. rectangular trough. The lid, sloping in the shape of a roof, is quite free ofall decoration. In the sixth and seventh centuries the dimensions of the sarcophagibegan to decrease, being…
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