[1] The sarcophagus was found in the Kızöldün tumulus, in the Granicus river valley, near Biga in the Province of Çanakkale in 1994.

[2] The area where the sarcophagus was found is located midway between Troy and Daskyleion, the capital of Hellespontine Phrygia.

[1] This is the earliest stone sarcophagus with figural reliefs ever found in Asia Minor.

[4] 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 Neoptolemos in front of the tomb of his father Achilles.

But they do not worship Hercules, alleging as a reason that he ravaged their country.The men shown in the reliefs are Greek, while the women are Trojans.