in keeping with the burial rituals ratified by the senate in bill 72-g5b ( otherwise affixed the title : on the ceremonial rites of public officials and private citizens of cultural and/or political significance ) , his bones ( hopefully his bones and not those of some filthy beggar lying adjacent in the mass grave ) were laid out elegantly in a stone sarcophagus encrusted with diamonds ; this hermetically sealed receptacle was placed on the floor of a vast basement hall alongside the similarly airtight sarcophagi of noted statesman , kings , distinguished generals , nobility , saintly royal pets , and other icons of cultural capital .