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en-wikipedia-org-741		Eshmunazar II sarcophagus - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4223	644	85	The Eshmunazar II sarcophagus is an early 5th century BCE sarcophagus unearthed in 1855 at a site near Sidon and now in the Louvre, which contains a Phoenician inscription which was of great significance on its discovery – it was the first discovered in the Phoenician language from the area known as Phoenicia, and was the most detailed such inscription ever found anywhere up to that point.[1][2] More than a dozen scholars across Europe and the United States rushed to translate it and to interpret its details in the two years after its discovery was first published.[4] Jean-Joseph-Léandre Bargès wrote that the language of the inscription is "identical with Hebrew, except for the final inflections of a few words and certain expressions, in very small numbers, which are not found in the biblical texts which have come down to us; the fact that Hebrew was written and spoken in Sidon, at a time when the Jews returning from captivity no longer heard this language, is proof that it was preserved among the Phoenicians longer than among the Hebrews themselves."[5]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-741.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-741.txt