Conserving a Maltese Phoenician sarcophagus

PHOENICIAN WATCH: Rare Phoenician sarcophagus covered by Rabat trenching works excavated. 600BC Phoenician stone sarcophagus discovered 21 years ago being examined by University and heritage experts over fears of damage from increased roadworks (Matthew Vella, Malta Today).

See also: Phoenician sarcophagus discovered in Rabat being conserved, will go up on permanent display (Malta Independent).

The sarcophagus, alas, appears to be uninscribed.

Cross-file under Punic Watch, if you define Punic broadly as Mediterranian colonial Phoenician, rather than narrowly as Carthaginian.

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