stela
- Museum number
- 125100
- Description
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Limestone stela, top part missing. Three-line inscription in an inset rectangular panel with the letters hanging down from lightly scored lines. On either side is a thin rectangular inset panel. Above, with the background cut away, is a Tanit symbol with raised arms (head missing), probably within a niche (the side pieces are also in raised flat relief). Flanking this, also in inset panels, are 2 symbols with the top broken off, caducei or stylised trees, each having 2 sunken circles with raised centres on a double stalk.
- Production date
- 1stC-2ndC
- Dimensions
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Height: 44.50 centimetres
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Width: 37.40 centimetres
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Depth: 12 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Incomplete; top part missing.
- Acquisition date
- 1858
- Acquisition notes
- This donation of four Punic stelae said to be from the area of Carthage was highlighted in the published 'Accounts of the Income and Expenditure of the British Museum for the Financial Year ended the 31st day of March 1859' (p.13).
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 125100
- Registration number
- 1858,0603.2