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Cesnola Collection at the Turin University Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography

2016; De Gruyter; Volume: 55; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1515/kadmos-2016-0003

1613-0723

Anna Cannavò, Luca Bombardieri,

Maritime and Coastal Archaeology

Abstract A previously unpublished marble fragment from the Cesnola collection at the Turin University Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography bears an incomplete Phoenician inscription, a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