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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.
Three sarcophagi stand in the cross-shaped chapel, but no one knows if her remains (she died in 450) are in one of them (her husband and son should fill the others).
In Eastern Europe, exhumed bodies have been used as symbols by political parties, as anthropologist Katherine Verdery explains in her forthcoming book, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies in the Postsocialist Transformation . For instance, liberal reform parties have disinterred Communist leaders from their mausoleums while reburying pre-Communist nationalist heroes in elaborate sarcophagi.
Excavations of tombs have also been fruitful and the museum displays some beautiful clay sarcophagi.
Today they are on view in the museum on site but their stone sarcophagi still lie in the temple complex.