Stele, Museo di Antichita, Turin, Italy
Stele of Melkyaton, temple style, with lion in pediment and Greek female figure removing a veil, Punic, 3rd century BC, Parian marble, from the Tophet Sanctuary in Sulky, Sant'Antioco, Carbonia-Iglesias, Sardinia, in the Museo di Antichita, created 1940, housing collections of Greek and Roman antiquities and Turin and Piedmont history, from the House of Savoy, in the Palazzo Reale in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. The woman's gesture is associated with marriage and the goddess Persephone or Kone. The Punic inscription mentions Melkyaton, a sufet or high magistrate. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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