A Phoenician Inscription from Cyprus in the Cesnola Collection at the Turin University Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography

Anna Cannavò (1) , Luca Bombardieri (2)

1 EfA - École française d'Athènes
2 UNITO - Università degli studi di Torino = University of Turin

A previously unpublished marble fragment from the Cesnola collection at the Turin University Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography bears an incomplete Phoenician inscription, a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.

Mots clés: Kition-Batsalos; Phoenician inscription; Phoenician votive stone bowl; Eshmun-Melqart; Luigi Palma di Cesnola; University Museum of Turin

Domaines: Histoire; Etudes classiques; Archéologie et Préhistoire

Anna Cannavò, Luca Bombardieri. A Phoenician Inscription from Cyprus in the Cesnola Collection at the Turin University Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. Kadmos, 2016, 55 (1-2), pp.37-48. ⟨10.1515/kadmos-2016-0003⟩. ⟨hal-01865665⟩