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Abstract
A previously unpublished marble fragment from the Cesnola collection at the Turin University Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography bears an incomplete Phoenician inscription, a dedication to Eshmun-Melqart considered lost since 1869 (CIS I 26). The inscription allows to interpret the object bearing the dedication as a votive stone bowl from the late Classical Phoenician sanctuary of Kition-Batsalos in Cyprus, and it provides the opportunity to retrace the history of the Cesnola collection of Cypriote antiquities at the University Museum of Turin.
Keywords: Luigi Palma di Cesnola; Phoenician inscription; Kition-Batsalos; Eshmun- Melqart; Phoenician votive stone bowl; University Museum of Turin
Published Online: 2016-10-28
Published in Print: 2016-05-24
© 2017 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
