With the rise of the practice of inhumation a market for the new sarcophagus was created. As with any object being created in today’s business world, price dictates luxury. With each types of sarcophagus, the price was dictated by the medium, the distance and mode of transport for the medium, and the workmanship involved to finish the sarcophagus. First the marble or stone were quarried, roughly cut into a rectangular shape, hollowed out, to save on weight, and shipped by land or sea. After arriving at the secondary workshop the new arrived marble or stone boxes were roughly hewn into its preferred shape. It was then transported to a sculpture workshop where the figures were chiseled out in a rough form and then prefabricated package was stored.
