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.
Definition: A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone
described above; hence, any stone coffin.
Definition: A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a
grave as a memorial.
