Dedication in Greek and Phoenician to Aphrodite / Astarte.  Base of white marble, preserved on the right and at the bottom.
[ ] Kos Isl. — Kos — aft. 306 BC — AD 35 A (1980) 1-30 — SEG 36.758 — Semitica 49 (1999) 103-116
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I.1 [Ἀφρ]οδίτηι ἱδρύσατο
[․․․]τιμος Ἀβδαλωνύμου
[Σιδ]ῶνος βασιλέως
[ὑπ]ὲρ τῶν πλεόντων.
II.5 lrbty l῾štrt p῾lt t῾l ym z ᾿[nk — — — —]
bn mlk ῾bd᾿lnm mlk ṣdnym ῾l ḥy k[l mlḥm?]
᾿š[— — 12 — —]l kl mš᾿t ᾿š l᾿šmn ln[— — — —]
II, transl.5 “ad Dominam meam, ad ῾Ashtart, feci hoc monumentum maritimum (?) [— nomen —],
filius regis ῾Abdalonim, regis Sidoniorum, pro salute om[nium navigantium],
qui [— — —] ex omnibus eis, quae oblata sunt ad Eshmum [— — —].
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