Son of Baalshillek marble base

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CIS I 178 or KAI 84 in Nathan Davis Phoenician Inscriptions from Carthage in the British Museum (1856-58)

The Son of Baalshillek marble base is a Punic language inscription on a marble statue base discovered in 1856–58 at Carthage in Tunisia.

It was first published by Nathan Davis, and the one-line inscription is known as KAI 84 and CIS I 178.

Davis wrote that "This tablet is peculiar, as well for its material (white marble) as for its inscription. The plain square may have served as the base of a statuette,—the subject of the epitaph on the edges, of which two only have been preserved."[1]

Of all the inscriptions found by Davis, it was one of just three that was not a traditional Carthaginian tombstone - the other two being number 73 (the Carthage tower model) and number 90 (the Carthage Tariff), which contained a bevelled architectural ornamentation.[2]

It is held in the archives of the British Museum, as BM 125217.[3]

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