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
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… … Fig. 353.—Stone Coffin of Gallo-Roman origin, in the Cluny Museum. coffin, narrower at the foot than at the head, was covered with a largestone, hewn like that of the antique coffins. Moreover, it was often atrifle less deep at the foot than at the head ; but this is the special charac-teristic of…
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