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Room 13 contains a number of painted Minoan sarcophagi, many decorated with the images of fish or birds.
These were a development from the fayum paintings that covered the face of the dead in the sarcophagi of Egyptian mummies.
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.
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.