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25-May-2014 Dick Osseman

Canakkale Archaeological Museum May 2014 8086.jpg

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This is the Altıkulaç sarcophagus, a painted marble sarcophagus of Graeco-Persian type, found in a single circular corbel-vaulted tomb of the Çingenetepe tumulus at the village of Altıkulaç near the town of Çan in the eastern Troad. Two sides of the sarcophagus have figural representations. The front consists of two different scenes: a boar hunt at the right and a stag hunt at the left, with a tree in the center serving as a divider. On the short side it seems that an Anatolian dynast from the western part of Hellespontine Phrygia is depicted here both in a hunting and battle scene, probably fighting a Greek in the latter. It dates probably from the first quarter of the 4th century BC.

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