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TM 865188 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/865188

also known as Ahiram Sarcophagus

TM Gallery info The Ahiram Sarcophagus (TM 865188) is the limestone funerary chest of a Phoenician king, dated to the middle of the 9th century BC. It was discovered by a French archaeologist in the original tomb in the royal necropolis of Byblos. It is the oldest example of the fully developed Phoenician script, and considered by some to be a terminus post quem for the transfer of the alphabet to Greece. The sarcophagus in now kept in the National Museum in Beirut.

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Date: about BC 850

Provenance: Byblos (Jubayl) - Lebanon (PhoeniciaThe region ca. 3rd cent. BC - SyriaThe Roman provincia or regio ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]

Language/script: Phoenician

Material: stone — sarcophagus

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Publications

Donner / Röllig, Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften (KAI) (2nd ed.) 1 (Donner, Herbert / Röllig, Wolfgang - 1966) Please subscribe to follow this link [default]

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