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Culture: EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN.
Date: 3RD CENTURY AD.
Material: LEAD.
Provenance: EX: PRIVATE COLLECTION.
Condition: INTACT, PRESERVING A FRAGMENT OF A SARCOPHAGUS.
Measurements: 15.9 INCHES LONG, (40.4 CMS), 6 INCHES WIDE, 15.3 CMS).
Cf: For closely similar examples, see lote 489, 490, Sotheby's London Antiquities Auction, 9/10 July 1992. For a discussion of the subject of lead sarcophagi in general, see Chehab, Syria 15, 1934, p.338ff; and Koch and Sichtermann, Sarkophage, p.571, pls. 579-582.
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