Funerary Stele

This piece has an anthropomorphic shape and straight base. The head is missing, but was separated from the body by a curved line with engraving that could have represented the chin or a necklace. The body is long and narrow with two parallel sides at the edges of the gravestone. On the main side and above there is a circular emblem with a V-shaped indentation made up of four concentric circumferences. The outside one has a zigzag decoration. Below, there is a nine-string chordophone with a semicircular sound box and zigzag line decoration identical to the emblem's.

There are two theories about the origins of this stele. First, it could relate to Homeric principles of Greek ascendency and date from the 7th to the 6th century BCE. Secondly, it may be precolonial Phoenician and so date from the 13th to the 11th century BCE.