Word: sarcophaguses
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...sarcophagus effigy from 13th century Spain, the only large wooden figure from this period in the country, is being put on exhibition in the Main Hall of the Fogg Museum today...
...style is closely related to that of the sculpture in the Cathedral at Burgos, a key monument of Spanish art. Archeologically, coming from a dated sarcophagus, it is of importance in adding another placement date to the Cathedral...
...Along one side stands the new, 24-ft. electric stove with two ovens, each capable of baking 40 loaves of bread or roasting 125 lb. of beef at a time. Mrs. Roosevelt was particularly pleased with a steam table called a "Thermotainer," as big as an emperor's sarcophagus, for keeping food hot. Another Thermotainer resembling a heavy, chromium riling cabinet on small balloon tires is used to deliver the President's desk lunch to him in his office...
...Duke of Alba intimated to an American Scholar who visited him while travelling through Spain, that the government wished to have certain art objects of national importance returned, among which was the Fogg sarcophagus. In return, the Spanish government would give other works of art of equal intrinsic value. This plan, however, was purely unofficial, and before the Duke was able to accomplish anything more definite, his king had been overthrown by the revolution...
Finally, by 1933, the political situation had become more stable, and on July 8, an exchange was finally effected. In place of the sarcophagus slab, the Fogg received a marble column from a monastery in Santiago, a double capital from a thirteenth century monastery in Palencia, some ancient Spanish pottery and 24 small bronze figures. The latter were found in a sanctuary near a mining district and may have been votive offerings to the gods of minerals...