The anthropoid sarcophagus was brought from Kuyuluk village, close to Marsin Pompeipolis, to the Adana museum in 1950. It is however considered to have been produced in the Phoenician city of Sidon, that is one of the centers of such tombs (compare a collection I have of those in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum). The use of a human form is accepted to have originated in Egyptian culture. A notice indicates that the dead had to be identifiable to become immortal, so on mummies faces were painted, this stone face is similar.