Eshmun obelisk

Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum CIS I 44
Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum CIS I 44 inscription only (cropped)

The Eshmun obelisk is an obelisk with a two-line Phoenician inscription found in Kition, Cyprus by Claude Delaval Cobham in 1881. It is known as CIS I 44, KI 21, NE 420,2 and NSI 15.[1][2][3] It was used as a Baetylus, or devotional object.[4]

Cobham was the District Commissioner of Larnaka, but also acted as an informal agent for the British Museum. The stele with was discovered during the construction of the highroad in the Tourabi Tekke area.[5]

References

  1. ^ Schroeder, Paul (1880). "Phönicische Miscellen". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. 34 (4). Harrassowitz Verlag: 675–684. ISSN 0341-0137. JSTOR 43361416. Retrieved 2023-08-27.
  2. ^ CIS I 44
  3. ^ Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology. The Society. 1879. p. 71. Retrieved 2023-08-27.
  4. ^ BM 125096
  5. ^ Fourrier, Sabine; Kiely, Thomas (2012). "Excavations at Kition-Bamboula 1879. Finds in the British Museum". Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Chypriotes (in French). 42 (1): 274. doi:10.3406/cchyp.2012.1027. ISSN 0761-8271.