Tyre Cistern inscription
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tyre-cistern-inscription-304-6387231
title:
Tyre Cistern inscription
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The Tyre Cistern inscription is a Phoenician inscription on a white marble block discovered in the castle-palace of the Old City of Tyre, Lebanon in 1885 and acquired by Peter Julius Löytved, the Danish vice-consul in Beirut. It was the first Phoenician inscription discovered in modern times from Tyre. One side of the parallelepiped-shaped cistern contains a Phoenician inscription which is broken and includes nine incomplete lines; it has been dated on paleographic grounds to the middle of the 3
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Phoenician inscription found in Tyre, Lebanon
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyre_Cistern_inscription
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2024-02-27T20:17:45Z
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