Sarcophagus

With the rise of the practice of inhumation a market for the new sarcophagus was created. As with any object being created in today’s business world, price dictates luxury. With each types of sarcophagus, the price was dictated by the medium, the distance and mode of transport for the medium, and the workmanship involved to finish the sarcophagus. First the marble or stone were quarried, roughly cut into a rectangular shape, hollowed out, to save on weight, and shipped by land or sea. After arriving at the secondary workshop the new arrived marble or stone boxes were roughly hewn into its preferred shape. It was then transported to a sculpture workshop where the figures were chiseled out in a rough form and then prefabricated package was stored.…

it is never gone.” This will be displayed on the stone block that is horizontially placed on top of two vertical stone blocks as you walk up the stairway and enter the stone circle. My memorial will not be to scale of Stonehenge but on a scale that is half the size of the actual stone henge in regards to the circumference of the circle (54ft wide). However, the shear size of the blocks that compose the circle will still be regular height (13 feet high). The blocks of stones themselves will be…

The Sarcophagus with the Myth of Dionysos and Ariadne, 235 A.D. Marble., H. 0.98 m; W. 2.08 m; D. 0.62 m. Louvre Palace Museum, Paris, France. The Sarcophagus with the Myth of Dionysos and Ariadne is a Roman funerary sarcophagus made in 235 A.D. and found in a tomb in 1805, Saint-Médard-d'Eyrans near Bordeaux, France. The artist is unknown, yet it is known that the sarcophagus was made as a pair with The Sarcophagus with the Legend of Selene and Endymion (Louvre Palace Museum, n.d.). These two…

A Study of the Sarcophagus of the Spouses While the origins of the Etruscan people are unknown, they appear to historians to have been an indigenous people, possibly coming from Asia Minor. It is impossible to know the exact origins however, as no literature survived. The only written records that remain today are mainly funerary inscriptions. It is the purpose of this paper then, to examine a fundamental piece of funerary art to expand upon the history and culture of a people that inevitably…

Sarcophagus and Mummy of Taosir This wooden coffin, discovered in the ruins of the ancient city of Ipu holds the mummified body of Taosir, the daughter of Nesmin and Taamun, priestess of Osiris in the city of Ipu around 600 BC. Its bright colors, the details of the decoration, and the good condition of its hieroglyphic text are excellent testimonies of Egyptian life in 600 BC. Falcon sarcophagus with Osiris mummy Within this sarcophagus, which was crafted in the image of the falcon god…

The Sarcophagus of Hagia Triada depicts Minoan funerary rites to honour the dead. Sacrifices and gift giving as part of the procession are shown on each of the sides. On one side, the people are presenting the gifts to the dead man himself, standing outside his tomb. The piece has a strong emphasis on line, shape, and colour. Many patterns adorn around the main register. The entire piece is filled with colour, though now most of it has faded. Strong lines separate each part of the patterns and…

Sarcophagus Depicting a Battle between Soldiers and Amazons is the title of a sarcophagus that is currently located in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. This sarcophagus is quite massive with an overall weight of 5511.5 pounds and with an overall dimension of about 40 ½ inches long, 91 ½ inches tall, and 50 ½ inches at the base of the end. The material that was used to create this sarcophagus is marble. The name of the artist is unknown, however, it is stated that he is Roman. This sarcophagus…

Mark Twain was a river boat pilot on the Mississippi River for a while before he wrote books, while Dr. Richard Selzer joined the faculty of Yale as a professor of surgery from 1960 to 1985. These two have been successful with within topics of how they wrote their books, focusing on Two Views of the Mississippi and Sarcophagus, these included: the audiences they were writing to and explanation of their topics, but they also had contrasting factors such as: the atmosphere they created, the…

might bit suspicious as to the lack of remains in the sarcophagus ,as well as the lack of location where this “treasure” was originally found. Although we seem to be missing a huge point; Shakespeare did not create the original story of Romeo and Juliet. Let's start off with the lack of remains in the said “Juliet’s Tomb.” It is not unheard of for church officials to desecrate the tombs of those who killed themselves or those who were heretics. However, why was the tomb found amongst others if…

Great Pyramid of Giza - the only pyramid with ascending and descending passes. One can not be isolated in its design it is a huge descent, called the "big gallery". At its end is a narrow passage that leads to the "king room", where the walls are decorated with polished granite. Scientists believe that the "room of the King" was a triumph of Egyptian geometry, because, according to their calculations, it was built in proportion to the golden section. The sarcophagus is made of red granite…