RT Article
T1 The Old Phoenician Inscription from Spain Dedicated to Hurrian Astarte*
JF Harvard theological review
VO 64
IS 2/3
SP 189
OP 195
A1 Cross, Frank Moore 1921-2012
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 1971
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1582050473
AB In 1963 a bronze statuette was acquired by the Museo Arqueológico de Sevilla. It portrays a naked goddess with a modified ?atḥor hair style. She is seated, her feet resting on a pedestal which is inscribed with five lines of old Phoenician writing. The writing surface on the pedestal measures only 4.1 × 2.8 cm. and unhappily is marred by bronze disease, that is, by corrosion which swells and flakes. The figurine with its inscription was published by J. M. Solá-Solé in 1966 in an excellent paper which correctly dated the inscription (and the statuette) in the first half of the eighth century B.C. and went far in deciphering the difficult text. In figure 1 we have attempted to draw a facsimile of the statue pedestal based on the published photographs.
DO 10.1017/S0017816000032491