The Sarcophagus with the scene depicting the Sacrifice of Polyxena in Troy Museum, Çanakkale, Türkiye.

The Polyxena sarcophagus is a late 6th century BCE sarcophagus from Hellespontine Phrygia. The sarcophagus was found in the Kızöldün tumulus, in the Granicus river valley, near Biga in the Province of Çanakkale in 1994. The area where the sarcophagus was found is located midway between Troy and Daskyleion, the capital of Hellespontine Phrygia.

This is the earliest stone sarcophagus with figural reliefs ever found in Asia Minor. The style is Late Archaic Greek and the sarcophagus dates to the last two decades of the 6th Century BC (520–500 BC), or slightly later (500–490 BC), based on stylistic analysis.

The reliefs represent a funerary celebration on three of its sides, and on the back what is believed to be the sacrifice of Polyxena, daughter of the king of Troy, Priam, by Neuptolemos in front of the tomb of his father Achilles.

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