[5] The sarcophagus was found in 1998 in a circular corbel-vaulted tomb within the Çingenetepe tumulus, in the village of Altıkulaç, near Çan, in the eastern Troad, about halfway between Troy and Daskyleion, in what was anciently Hellespontine Phrygia.

[4] The shorter face of the sarcophagus is decorated with a battle scene, with a mounted, armoured warrior, accompanied by his henchman, spearing a fallen light-armed soldier, probably a Greek psilos.

[7][4][8] The sarcophagus nevertheless derives from a long tradition of royal iconography in the Near East, especially visible in the tombs of Asia Minor.

[2] Given the date and circumstance of this sarcophagus, the dynast who is illustrated in the hunting and fighting scene may have been related to the Satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia, Pharnabazus, who fought again the Greeks on several occasions, particularly against Agesilaos when the latter attacked and ravaged the area around Daskyleion in 395 BCE.

[2] The bones found in the tomb belonged to a male of considerable strength, between 170 and 175 centimetres (67 and 69 in) in height, who died between 25 and 28 years old.