The Bashamem inscription
The inscription in the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, along with three other inscriptions

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.

Text of the inscription

Transcription Translation
L’DN LB‘ŠMM B’YNṢM NṢBM [W]ḤN[W]ṬM ŠNM 2 ’Š NDR B‘

LḤN’ ŠBDMLQRT BN ḤN’ BN ’ŠMN‘MS BN MHRB‘L

BN ’TŠ

 To lord Bashamem, in Hawk Island, stelae and ḥnwṭs two (2), vowed the man Baa-

-lhanno to Bodmelqart, son of Hanno, son of Eshmunamas, son of Maharbal,

son of ’TŠ

Bibliography

  • Editio princeps: Elena, sopra una iscrizione fenicia scoperta in Cagliari : lettera al chiar . sig . cav . Gaetano Cara direttore del R. Museo archeologico di Cagliari . (28 pag . con tavola litogr . 4.) Livorno
  • A. Stiglitz, Cagliari fenicia e punica in Rivista di Studi Fenici XXXV, 1-2007 Agnano Pisano (Pisa) 2009 pp. 54–57, fig. 6:3.
  • E. Pais, Bibliografia, Corpus Inscriptionum..... in BAS Anno I Serie II ed. A. Forni, p. 185, Cagliari 1884.
  • A. Taramelli, Guida del Museo Nazionale di Cagliari in Archivio Storico Sardo 1914 p. 264- 279 spec. p. 298.
  • M.G. Amadasi Guzzo, IFPCO Sard. 23, Roma 1967 pp. 101–102 Tav. XXXV

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