Global InformationBashamem inscription information
The Bashamem inscription or Baalshamam inscription is a Phoenician language inscription found in Cagliari, Sardinia in 1877. It is currently in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari.
It is engraved on a rectangular block of dolomite, 61 x 20 x 29 cm, with a cavity in the top for the insertion of a statue, sculpture or other votive object linked to the cult of divinity.[1]
It was found in the Piazza Sant'Eulalia;[2][3] although it was originally thought to have come from near the Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata[4]
The inscription is thought to mention San Pietro Island, known in classical times as Hawk Island.
It is also known as KAI 64 or CIS I 139.
- ^ George Albert Cooke, 1903: Text-book of North-Semitic Inscriptions: Moabite, Hebrew, Phoenician, Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene, Jewish , page 108
- ^ E. Pais 1884 p. 185
- ^ Taramelli 1914 p. 298
- ^ Amadasi Guzzo 1967 sard. 23