Global InformationPauli Gerrei trilingual inscription information
The Pauli Gerrei trilingual inscription is a trilingual Greek-Latin-Phoenician inscription on the base of a bronze column found in San Nicolò Gerrei in Sardinia in 1861.[1] The stele was discovered by a notary named Michele Cappai, on the right side of the Strada statale 387 del Gerrei that descends towards Ballao.[2]
Spano donated the inscription to the Museum of Turin; Turin had been the first capital of the unified Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1865. Spano subsequently obtained the nomination as Senator of the Kingdom. It is currently in the Turin Archaeology Museum. On 10 October 2009 the then mayor Silvestro Furcas requested the inscription be returned to Pauli Gerrei.
It is also known as KAI 66 and CIS I 143.[3]
- ^ Spano 1862.
- ^ Martini, 1861, p.57-58: "Se non che queste in un modo affatto singolare verranno richiamale dalla insigne e preziosa iscrizione trilingue in bronzo, che nello scorso mese di febbrajo fu trovata nella villa di Pauli Gerrei e nel salto denominato Santjaci da Michele Cappai, allievo notajo, ed ora è posseduta dal chiarissimo mio amico e collega , che dirige questo Bullettino."
- ^ The International Cyclopaedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge. Dodd, Mead. 1892.