Abstract
This paper focuses on the various repercussions of the discovery of the sarcophagus of Eshmunazor II, king of the Sidonians, in 1855 in the necropolis of Magharat Tablun in Sidon. We'll begin by highlighting its arrival in Paris in 1856, and the place it occupied then and later at the Musée du Louvre within the Phoenician collection. We will then measure its scientific and epigraphic impact on the creation of the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum and Ernest Renan's Phoenician Mission.
