The Idalion Temple inscriptions are six Phoenician inscriptions found by Robert Hamilton Lang in his excavations at the Temple of Idalium (modern Dali, Cyprus) in 1869,[1] whose work there had been inspired by the discovery of the Idalion Tablet in 1850.[2][3] The most famous of these inscriptions is known as the Idalion bilingual. The Phoenician inscriptions are known as KAI 38-40 and CIS I 89-94.
They are currently at the British Museum.[4] The discovery was first announced by Paul Schröder in 1872.[4][5]
Name | Image | Date | Concordance | ||||||
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KAI | CIS / RES | NE | KI | NSI | TSSI | Museum ID | |||
Number 1 (Idalion bilingual) |
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388 BC | 39 | I 89 | BM 125320 | ||||
Number 2 | ![]() |
391 BC | 38 | I 90 | 421,1 | 31 | 24 | III 34 | BM 125315 |
Number 3 | ![]() |
I 91 | 421,2 | 32 | 25 | BM 125328 | |||
Number 4 | ![]() |
354 BC | I 92 | 26 | BM 125326 | ||||
Number 5 | ![]() |
254 BC | 40 | I 93 | 421,3 | 33 | 27 | BM 125327 (replica) | |
Number 6 | ![]() |
I 94 | BM 125316 |