Sarcophagus - Sarcophagus

Japanese: 石棺 - せっかん

Sarcophagus is a stone coffin for burying the dead. In ancient Greece and Rome, the corpse was said to have been placed in a stone coffin for 40 days until it decayed and disappeared, but the practice of placing the dead in stone or terracotta coffins and burying them had already been practiced by Tutankhamun in the New Kingdom of Egypt, and was probably a way to bury high-ranking people with great care. Many coffins have carvings or paintings on the lid or all four sides. In Japan, box-shaped stone coffins were used during the Yayoi period, and split bamboo-shaped, boat-shaped, house-shaped, and long-box-shaped stone coffins were used during the Kofun period.

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Japanese:

サルコファギ sarcophagusともいう。死者を埋葬する石製の棺。古代ギリシア・ローマでは，40日間，死体が腐敗して消滅するまで石棺に入れておいたと伝えられるが，死者を石製やテラコッタなどの棺に入れて埋葬することは，すでにエジプト新王国のトゥトアンクアメンに先例があり，身分の高い人物などを手厚く葬る方法であったのであろう。棺蓋や四周に彫刻や絵画のあるものも多い。日本でも弥生時代に箱形石棺が，古墳時代に割竹形，舟形，家形，長持形などの石棺が用いられた。

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