Baal Lebanon inscription


The Baal Lebanon inscription, known as KAI 31, is a Phoenician inscription found in Limassol, Cyprus in eight bronze fragments in the 1870s. At the time of their discovery, they were considered to be the second most important finds in Semitic palaeography after the Mesha stele.
It was purchased in 1876 by Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau from a Limassol merchant named Laniti.
It is the only Phoenician inscription to suggest a "colonial" system amongst the Phoenician domains.

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