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Coffin (Box or chest in which corpses)

the box or chest in which corpses are inclosed before being committed to the ground. Coffins were in use in Egypt at a remote period of antiquity. Some of the Egyptian coffins were wood. There were fine sarcophagi of stone, and in Mesopotamia of clay.

Cedar was used in Athens for inclosing the remains of heroes, and marble and stone among the Romans.