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This white marble anthropoid (human-shaped) coffin shows a male head wearing a Egyptian style headdress. Phoenician art was influenced by many different traditions. Coffins of this Gaeco-Egyptian style have been found in large numbers at at the Phoenician city of Sidon, but examples are also known from Cyprus, Sicily, and Gades (modern-day Cadiz). 5th century BCE. From Sidon (Saida), modern-day Lebanon. (The British Museum, London)
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