Phoenician coffin

This white marble anthropoid (human-shaped) coffin shows a male head wearing an Egyptian style headdress. Phoenician art was influenced by many different traditions. Coffins of this Graeco-Egyptian style have been found in large numbers at the Phoenician city Sidon, but examples are also known from Cyprus, Sicily and Gades (modern-day Cadiz).这件采用白色大理石制作的类人（人形）棺椁，其表面雕刻有头戴埃及式头饰的男性头部。腓尼基艺术曾受到多种不同文化传统的影响。这类希腊-埃及风格的棺椁在腓尼基城邦西顿有大量出土，目前在塞浦路斯、西西里岛以及加德斯（今西班牙加的斯）也有同类遗存被发现。