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    How does a stone coffin come to have a name that means flesh-eating?

    Question #53068. Asked by gmackematix. (Dec 12 04 8:23 PM)


    philsgirl

    		A sarcophagus is called that because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it.
    http:/www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/sarcophagus

    Dec 12 04, 8:33 PM
    mibmob

    		A sarcophagus is a stone container for a coffin or body. The word comes from Greek sarkophagos (óáñêïöáãïò), which means "eater of flesh". Herodotus believed, erroneously, that sarcophagi (the Latin plural) were carved from a special kind of rock that consumed the flesh of the corpse inside. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcophagus

    Dec 13 04, 11:30 AM

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