Nora Stone

The stele of Nora and the fragment of Nora are carriers of Phoenician inscriptions of the 9th century BC, which are exhibited in the National Museum of Cagliari in Sardinia. They are after their locality Nora, been designated a city of ruins near Pula on the south coast of Sardinia and represent the oldest written documents in the western Mediterranean area dar.

The consonants writing on the one meter high stele defies since their discovery over 200 years ago the translation experiments. Every attempt has provided a different version. It is written without word division from right to left. Controversial are particularly the location or names of gods. As the most famous testimony of the stele the initial naming of the island is considered to Sardinia.

FM Cross ( Harvard University) interpreted the inscription of the Nora Tele victories than writing a Milkaton, son of Sabna and General of the King Pumayaton who lives after the Battle of Tarsis ( in Sardinia and not Tartessos in Andalusia ) with the Sardinians in peace. Pumayaton of Tyre ( 831-785 BC) the Greeks called Pygmalion, has therefore enforced Phoenician interests in Sardinia and causes not only the founding of Carthage. Like all other interpretations is also this very controversial, but it is a historic past.

Another translation reads: " [This is ] the main temple of Nora, the [ the writer ] in Sardinia visited a sign of peace. The hopes for peace is Saba, Milkatons son of Nora built opposite the island [ of Capo Pula ]. "

The Nora fragment completely eludes an interpretation. For fragment was noticed that the signs also would result in a sense if one assumes that Scripture was written furrow necessary or if you put the fragment on the head.