Mdina steles

The Mdina steles are two Phoenician language inscriptions found near the city of Mdina (ancient Maleth), Malta, in 1816. The findspot is disputed; the oldest known description places it near the Tal-Virtù Church. The surviving stele is currently in the National Museum of Archaeology, Malta; the other stele has been considered lost for more than a century.[1]

The surviving stele

They were widely publicized by Wilhelm Gesenius as Melitensia Tertia and Melitensia Quarta ("Maltese 3rd" and "Maltese 4th").

  • Close up of the surviving stele
  • Close up of the surviving stele
  • The inscriptions in Hamaker's 1828 Miscellanea Phoenicia
  • Two versions of Melitensia Tertia and of Melitensia Quarta, in Gesenius's 1837 Scripturae Linguaeque Phoeniciae Monumenta

References
  1. Vella, Nicholas C, Vases, bones and two Phoenician inscriptions : an assessment of a discovery made in Malta in 1816, Ritual, religion and reason : studies in the ancient world in honour of Paolo Xella / edited by Oswald Loretz ... [et al.]. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2013. p. 589-605. ISBN 9783868350876
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