Cippi of Melqart
The Cippi of Melqart is the collective name for two Phoenician marble cippi that were unearthed in Malta under undocumented circumstances and dated to the 2nd century BC. These are votive offerings to the god Melqart, and are inscribed in two languages, Ancient Greek and Phoenician, and in the two corresponding scripts, the Greek and the Phoenician alphabet. They were discovered in the late 17th century, and the identification of their inscription in a letter dated 1694 made them the first Phoenician writing to be identified and published in modern times. Because they present essentially the same text (with some minor differences), the cippi provided the key to the modern understanding of the Phoenician language. In 1764, the French scholar Jean-Jacques Barthélémy relied on their inscripti
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Cippi of Melqart
The Cippi of Melqart is the collective name for two Phoenician marble cippi that were unearthed in Malta under undocumented circumstances and dated to the 2nd century BC. These are votive offerings to the god Melqart, and are inscribed in two languages, Ancient Greek and Phoenician, and in the two corresponding scripts, the Greek and the Phoenician alphabet. They were discovered in the late 17th century, and the identification of their inscription in a letter dated 1694 made them the first Phoenician writing to be identified and published in modern times. Because they present essentially the same text (with some minor differences), the cippi provided the key to the modern understanding of the Phoenician language. In 1764, the French scholar Jean-Jacques Barthélémy relied on their inscripti
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Als Cippi des Melqart oder Cip ...... von den Römern besetzt waren.
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Les cippes de Melqart sont deu ...... du déchiffrement du phénicien.
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The Cippi of Melqart is the co ...... rchaeology in Valletta, Malta.
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The Louvre Cippus
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National Museum of Archaeology ...... Room 18b, at the Louvre Museum
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CIS I, 122/122 bis or KAI 47 , AO 4818
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Greek script and ancient Phoenician alphabet
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Als Cippi des Melqart oder Cip ...... aeology in Valletta auf Malta.
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Les cippes de Melqart sont deu ...... du déchiffrement du phénicien.
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The Cippi of Melqart is the co ...... lémy relied on their inscripti
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Cippes de Melqart
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Cippi des Melqart
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Cippi of Melqart
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