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Ancient Roman sarcophagi were the often richly-carved sarcophagi used for inhumation of the dead by the ancient Romans. In Rome the use of sarcophagi had only a few precedents in the Republican era (when cremation was more widespread) and mainly spread from the early 2nd century, when cremation was abandoned in favour of burial as the majority burial practice.
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