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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2015
To the readers of this Journal, and in particular to Mr. Avi-Yonah, the author of the paper on Three Lead Coffins from Palestine in JHS. 1930, p. 300, it may be interesting to hear that the Museum of Archaeology at Leiden possesses a well-preserved lead coffin, belonging to the same class as those published in that article. This sarcophagus, which entered the Leiden Museum in 1902, was reported to have been found at Byoud el Saied near Tyre, and shows in many of its main features a great resemblance to the fragments published by Mr. Avi-Yonah as his Pl. XII, a, b, c, d.
The four sides and the curved lid of the coffin, though much damaged, are in existence, whilst the bottom has entirely disappeared, as is generally the case with this class of monuments. The long sides measure m. 1·70 by 0·37, the short sides 0·41 by 0·45. The lid was fixed on to the coffin by clamps projecting from the longitudinal sides, two of which are still in place.
1 Compare JHS. 1930, Pl. XII, a, c.
2 Ib., Pl. XII, b, c.
3 Ib., Pl. XII, d, p. 308, Fig. 1.
4 Ib., Pl. XII, a.
5 Ib., p. 308, Fig. 1.
6 Ib., p. 308, Fig. 1.
7 Ib., p. 308, Fig. 1.
8 Ib., Pl. XII, 3.
9 Renan, , Mission en Phénicie, p. 427 Google Scholar, Pl. LX.
10 Renan, , Mission en Phénicie, p. 427 Google Scholar, Pl. LX.