The Lilybaeum stele is a notable Phoenician gravestone stele found in Sicily and first published in 1882.[1]
The stele was published in the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, having been supplied to Renan by Count Francesco Hernandez di Carrera.[2] It measures 0.37 x 0.22 m and is made from white calcareous stone.[citation needed]
It was found in Marsala (Roman Lilybaeum), in an area known as il Timpone di S. Antonio.[citation needed] It is currently in the Antonino Salinas Regional Archeological Museum in Palermo.
^ Whitaker, Joseph, 1921, Motya, a Phoenician colony in Sicily, p.274
The Lilybaeumstele is a notable Phoenician gravestone stele found in Sicily and first published in 1882. The stele was published in the Corpus Inscriptionum...
(Italian: [marˈsaːla], Maissala local Sicilian: [maɪsˈsaːla]; Latin: Lilybaeum) is an Italian comune located in the Province of Trapani in the westernmost...
funerary aedicule of Marsala, with painted Tanit's sign Tanit's sign on Lilybaeumstele Tanit's sign in a Delian mosaic in the house of the dolphins A Modern...
mask with no beard or mustache was found, similar to the Punic masks. Lilybaeumstele, which was found near Motya – a Punic governmental centre in Sicily...
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stone sarcophagi. Examples are known from Tharros and Sulci in Sardinia, Lilybaeum in Sicily, Casa del Obispo at Gades in Spain, and Carthage and Kerkouane...
Isola Lunga, north of the Marsala, a town known in the ancient era as Lilybaeum and founded by the Carthaginians after the destruction of Motya in 397...
Greek variously as Abýla (Ἀβύλα), Abýlē (Ἀβύλη), Ablýx (Ἀβλύξ), and Abílē Stḗlē (Ἀβίλη Στήλη, "Pillar of Abyla") and in Latin as Mount Abyla (Abyla Mons)...
the western half of Sicily, where coastal fortresses such as Motya and Lilybaeum secured their possessions. The Iberian Peninsula, which was rich in precious...
(the grandson of Hamilcar that was killed at Himera). The army landed at Lilybaeum, and directly marched from there to Selinunte. The city's inhabitants...
initiated hostilities again in 368 BC, and after initial successes besieged Lilybaeum, but the defeat of his fleet at Drepanum led to a stalemate and the war...
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