Phoenician sarcophagi, Museo de Cadiz, Cadiz

Phoenician anthropoid marble sarcophagi, male (c. 450-400 BC) and female (c. 470 BC), Punic period, in the Museo de Cadiz, Cadiz, Andalusia, Southern Spain. The male figure holds a pomegranate and the female holds an alabastron, a small vial for oil. The sarcophagi were for the ruling classes and were influenced by classical Greek sculptures. Inside the female sarcophagus was a a funerary trousseau of bronze eyelashes, amulets, a ureus, a scarab and bronze nails. Cadiz is one of the oldest cities in Europe, founded by the Phoenicians in 1100 BC, and later became a Carthaginian then a Roman city, and Spain's constitution was signed here in 1812. It is situated on a peninsula on the Costa de la Luz. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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13439374

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45161957

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7087px x 4724px (5.8MB)

Credit

Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

Source

Photograph by Manuel Cohen