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Sarcophagus looks like a coffin, but sarcophagus have faces and are painted with bright beautiful colors. Some of them are covered in gold if they were kings.
It's a stone coffin.
Thet are called sarcophagi.
A sarcophagus is an ornamented stone coffin. This type of coffin is common to the burial of royalty in ancient Egypt. Often times a wooden coffin was placed inside the stone one.
Inscriptions are generally done on stone. The limitations are the size of the stone or writing area. If they are too large, they cannot be moved.