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...addition to these is a set of tablets which are connected with the Hittites. The writing is hieroglyphical and has never been deciphered. The sarcophagus of Eshiminazar II, king of Sidon, (300, B. C.,) is a cast, the original of which is at the Louvre. It is Fgyptian in style and was probably made in Egypt. The inscriptions give among other things the genealogy of the king, with the addition of territory during the reign, and calls down curses on any who may dare to open the tomb...
Some time ago in the course of excavations at Sidon, eleven sarcophagi were discovered; four Phoenician and seven Greek. The Greek ones have been removed to Constantinople and will be exhibited as soon as a fitting room can be prepared. One of these is of such immense proportions and so magnificent that it was thought to be the tomb of some Assyrian king. Investigations were made and finally the conclusion was reached that it was the sarcophagus of Alexander the Great. Its sculpture, on this theory, represents the battle of Arbela, a lion hunt and the battle of Granicus...
...workmen from Tyre and Sidon...