Example sentences for: sarcophagi

How can you use “sarcophagi” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Excavations of tombs have also been fruitful and the museum displays some beautiful clay sarcophagi.

  • These were a development from the fayum paintings that covered the face of the dead in the sarcophagi of Egyptian mummies.

  • Numerous tombs have been excavated on the hillside, and the sarcophagi in the Iráklion museum, finely decorated with cult scenes, was found here.

  • The 1260 carving of biblical themes has clear links to French Gothic sculpture, while drawing on models from Roman and Etruscan sarcophagi — a Herculean Daniel and a Mary inspired by heads of Juno and Phaedra.

  • Built from the eighth to the 12th centuries, San Pietro stands at the ba ck of a grassy courtyard with Etruscan sarcophagi, beside two crumbling medieval towers.


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