Roman-era stone coffin found in modern-day Lebanon
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.[1][2]
It is considered the most important of all the sarcophagi discovered by Contenau in Sidon.[3]
The relief at the head of the sarcophagus represents an ancient ship.[3]
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ab"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."