- A receptacle - Tomb with stone chest - A box or chest. Specifically: (a) A bronze receptacle, round
or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover,
and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) A cinerary
urn. See Illustration in Appendix. - See Cyst.
- A species of limestone used among the Greeks for
making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few
weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis
Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a
city of Lycia. - A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone
described above; hence, any stone coffin. - A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a
grave as a memorial.