Lycian sarcophagus of Sidon

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Lycian sarcophagus of Sidon
Istanbul Archaeological Museums

The Lycian sarcophagus of Sidon is a

Istanbul Archaeological Museum. It is dated to circa 430–420 BC.[1][2][3][4] This sarcophagus, as well as others in the Sidon necropolis, belonged to a succession of kings who ruled in the area of Phoenicia between the mid-5th century BC to the end of the 4th century BC.[5]

The sarcophagus was decorated in Greek sculptural style by Greek artists from Ionia, but incorporating the general shape of the ogival tombs from Lycia, such as the Tomb of Payava.[6] This is sometimes presented as an example of Greco-Persian art, although this should be qualified more precisely as Greco-Anatolian art, since such examples are unknown in the wider Achaemenid Empire.

The sarcophagus is decorated with reliefs, the side reliefs illustrating a lion-hunt and a boar-hunt, while the reliefs at the end show fighting centaurs and sphinxes.[5]

The Lycian sarcophagus of Sidon, is, together with the famous

Ayaa Necropolis conducted by Osman Hamdi Bey, an Ottoman of Greek descent and Yervant Voskan, an Ottoman of Armenian descent, at the necropolis near Sidon, Lebanon
in 1887.

  • The Lycian sarcophagus was the lowest tomb in the Sidon necropolis.
    The Lycian sarcophagus was the lowest tomb in the Sidon necropolis.

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