Ship sarcophagus
Illustration — National Museum of Beirut – Ship Sarcophagus 3 The Ship Sarcophagus, also known as the Sarcophagus au Navire, is a Roman era sarcophagus found by Georges Contenau in 1913 in Magharet Abloun, a necropolis containing the remains of Phoenician kings and notables in the south of Sidon in modern-day Lebanon. The sarcophagus has been dated to the 2nd century CE. It is considered the most important of all the sarcophagi discovered by Contenau in Sidon. The relief at the head of the sarcophagus represents an ancient ship.
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Illustration — National Museum of Beirut – Ship Sarcophagus 3 The Ship Sarcophagus, also known as the Sarcophagus au Navire, is a Roman era sarcophagus found by Georges Contenau in 1913 in Magharet Abloun, a necropolis containing the remains of Phoenician kings and notables in the south of Sidon in modern-day Lebanon. The sarcophagus has been dated to the 2nd century CE. It is considered the most important of all the sarcophagi discovered by Contenau in Sidon. The relief at the head of the sarcophagus represents an ancient ship.
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- 1.Princeton University Press. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. SIDON (Saida) Lebanon entry. 1976.
- 2.Herm, Gerhard. The Phoenicians: The Purple Empire of the Ancient World. Morrow. 127. 1975. 978-0-688-02908-1.
- 3."Sidon." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. Ed. Eric M. Meyers, Issam Ali Khalifeh. Oxford Biblical Studies Online: "In 1913 Georges Contenau, director of the Department of Oriental Antiquities of the Louvre Museum, uncovered a series of Roman sarcophagi at Magharat Ablun, of which the Sarcophage au Navire is the most important. On it a sculptured relief of a Roman ship is depicted."
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