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 SARCOPHAGI AND SEPULCHRAL FURNITURE. iS;, the same necropolis pieces of coffins in terra-cotta are often encountered ; l being so easily broken, they have in most cases been reduced to fragments by the treasure-hunters. The monuments to which it is possible to give at least an approximate date are the sarcophagi called by M. Renan an- tliropoid, after the expression made use of by Herodotus when he speaks of the Egyptian mummy-cases." Like the leaden coffins, FIG. 122. Sandstone coffin. From Kenan. these anthropoid sarcophagi are peculiar to Phoenicia. 'ith a single exception, that of Tyre, every necropolis in Phoenicia has furnished examples of them. 3 In the sarcophagus of Esmounazar both material and work- manship are Egyptian (Fig. 86). It was, in fact, imported into Syria, where nothing was added to it but the long inscription, in FIG. 123. Leaden coffin. From Lortet. which, however, most of its value consists. But the anthropoid sarcophagi belong to Phoenician art. Their form is the result of one of those efforts of adaptation which were characteristic of the 1 RENAN, Mission, p. 496. 2 SrAivov TVTTOV av^pwTroetSea. HERODOTUS, ii. 86. 3 See RENAN, Mission, pp. 403-405 and 412-427, plates lix. and Ix. Cf. LONGPERIER, Mus'ee Napoleon ///., notices of plates xvi. and xvii,