Commentary

This inscription, written in good standard (Tyro-Sidonian) Phoenician and dating approximately to 625–600 bce, was incised on a coarse, dark limestone in the rough shape of a prism with three sides (measuring.545 m maximum in length along its base,.175 m in height and.315 m maximum in depth). The three sides (designated A, B, and C) follow an interlocking ord…