Mesorat%20hashas for Zevachim 185:8

ורבי אלעזר ורבנן במאי קמיפלגי אמר אביי בדנין טומאה קדומה מטומאה שבאותה שעה קמיפלגי

save as much as an olive of a corpse and other things which defile through overshadowing,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit. 'tent'. This is a technical expression denoting defilement caused by the defiler being under the same covering (technically called a tent) as the defiled. E.g., everything in a room containing a corpse, or as much as an olive of a corpse, is unclean through being under the same covering as the corpse.');">¹¹</span> which includes a leprous stone!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' All things, both animate and inanimate, smitten with leprosy, defile through overshadowing. - Now, an oven unclean through a reptile does not defile through overshadowing. Hence this contradicts Rabbah's statement that R. Akiba holds there too that the air-space above an article defiles the water of lustration just as though it touched it.');">¹²</span>

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