[1] The Phoenician script is considered to be between the Punic and the Neo-Punic phases, between the fall of Carthage and the beginning of the Christian era.
[5] The inscription reads:[6][7] The length of the gap in first Latin line suggest it included the name of the father ("F(ilius) ...").
M. COS. M[...]") may mention a date, but can't be interpreted as the names of the Suffets Abdmelqart and Adonbaal; perhaps they were Duumviri of a neighboring colony.
[8] The Greek inscription presents the name of the dedicator, following a genitive and the restored "ἰατρός", corresponding with Latin "medicus".
[8] However, the name Ἡρακλείδης corresponds with the Phoenician Abdmelqart; This fact makes a restoration like "ἄρχοντος" - which will make the Greek and Punic parts parallel - possible, although it doesn't explain the presence of only one Suffet, and hence it is simpler to see Herakleides as the father, following the tranditional Greek structure of such inscriptions.