Lewis Short
(adjective) : Assĭus, a, um
* Of or pertaining to the city Assus (in Troas): lapis, a kind of limestone, which was used for coffins, and in which the body was soon consumed: In Asso Troadis sarcophagus lapis fissili venā scinditur. Corpora defunctorum condita in eo absumi constat intra XL. dies exceptis dentibus,Plin. 36, 17, 27, § 131.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary