Unsolved:Eshmun obelisk

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Short description: Obelisk with Phoenician inscription
Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum CIS I 44
Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum CIS I 44 inscription only (cropped)

The Eshmun obelisk is an obelisk with a two-line Phoenician inscription found in Kition, Cyprus by Claude Delaval Cobham in 1881. It is known as CIS I 44, KI 21, NE 420,2 and NSI 15.[1][2][3] It was used as a Baetylus, or devotional object.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Schroeder, Paul (1880). "Phönicische Miscellen". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (Harrassowitz Verlag) 34 (4): 675–684. ISSN 03410137. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43361416. Retrieved 2023-08-27. 
  2. ↑ https://archive.org/details/CorpusInscriptionumSemiticarumI1/page/n81/mode/1up CIS I 44]
  3. ↑ Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology. The Society. 1879. p. 71. https://books.google.com/books?id=DpI6AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA71. Retrieved 2023-08-27. 
  4. ↑ BM 125096



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