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Discovered in 1901 by Jacques de Morgan near the mud-brick outer wall of the Acropole, this tomb is still unique at Susa; nonetheless, a second empty coffin has been found alongside the first.
The bronze coffin contained a person of unknown sex and luxurious funerary items today conserved at the Louvre: a bronze cup, two alabastra and numerous gold jewels set with precious stones – bracelets, necklaces, earrings, buttons and amulets.
Two coins minted at Arados in Achaemenid Phoenicia can be dated back to the late-5th or mid-to-late-4th century BC.
No photos of the tomb are known. The only illustration is this watercolour by J. de Morgan.
The question of the tombs at Susa is still open, since no Achaemenid-era burial place has ever been found; likewise there are no known necropolises at Persepolis, apart from the six monumental royal tombs. It is therefore not possible to deduce that the Achaemenids and the Persians practiced the de-fleshing recommended by Zoroastrianism; this tomb and the royal tombs clearly show that this custom was not generalised.
Bronze funerary coffin. Watercolour by Jacques de Morgan.
© Jacques de Morgan, Mémoires de la Délégation en Perse, T. VIII, 1905, Pl. II.