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Sarcophagus

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

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

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