Cippi of Melqart

Abdosir and Osirshamar, brothers (dedicators) · c. 2nd century BC · Malta (ancient Melite) (Malta) · other

Two brothers from Tyre dedicate matching marble pillars to Melqart in Phoenician and Greek, and the bilingual text later hands Jean-Jacques Barthelemy in 1758 the key that unlocks the entire Phoenician alphabet for modern scholarship.