Word: sarcophagus
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Last week his blackened body was exhumed from its tomb in St. Peter's and the face covered with a silver mask replica of his features. The body was dressed in new papal vestments, then placed in a gold-leaf sarcophagus with a glass top for public view. As it was unveiled this week, at the height of the beatification ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica, St. Peter's archpriest, Cardinal Frederico Tedeschini, spoke for the first time the words of public veneration, to which only saints and blesseds are entitled...
...Berenson said that Sani's sculptures were not merely "like" the late Roman ones, they were just as good. In Sani's Rustic Dance, for example, "you get the bosses, the depth of shadow, the highly conventionalized foliage, the architecture, even, of a Third or Fourth Century sarcophagus. Looking attentively, you are amused to discover couples dancing in our own way and in our own clothes . . . One could fill pages pointing out the whirling couples, the musicians, the carousers admirably characterized each with his peculiar way of grasping, of moving, of conversing...
Died. Dr. Herbert Eustis Winlock, 65, famed Egyptologist, onetime (1932-39) director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; in Venice, Fla. As associate curator of the museum's Egyptian Department, Winlock was one of the 22 people who saw King Tut-ankh-Amun's sarcophagus opened at Luxor...
...admired object was the Portland Vase, a ten-inch-high urn of deep blue glass, decorated with white cameo figures of Peleus and Thetis. According to common, if unproved, legend, it was supposed to have come from the sarcophagus of the 3rd Century Roman Emperor Alexander Severus and to have once contained his ashes. Sir William Hamilton, otherwise known to history as the husband of Horatio Nelson's mistress, Emma, had brought it to England in 1770. Josiah Wedgwood had copied it, the Duchess of Portland had bought it (whence its present name), and her son had handed...
...perilous journey to the other world. Commoners had to travel light, but Queen Mereneith got a bang-up traveling outfit. Her body was rubbed with resin, wrapped in cloth strips with the arms outside (not strapped to the side, as in later mummies) and placed in a wooden sarcophagus. In the walls of the tomb, brightly painted like a palace interior, were false doors through which her soul could escape. She had all the furniture she might need, and plenty of food and wine, sealed safely in pottery vessels...