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Tyre Cistern inscription

Tyre Cistern inscription

archaeological artefact · marble · 249 BCE

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.

material
marble
held at
Louvre Museum · art museum
inv. no.
AO 1441

The journey

found at
Tyre
now in
Louvre Museum
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