Son of Baalshillek marble base

It was first published by Nathan Davis, and the one-line inscription is known as KAI 84 and CIS I 178.

Davis wrote that "This tablet is peculiar, as well for its material (white marble) as for its inscription.

The plain square may have served as the base of a statuette,—the subject of the epitaph on the edges, of which two only have been preserved.

"[1] Of all the inscriptions found by Davis, it was one of just three that was not a traditional Carthaginian tombstone - the other two being number 73 (the Carthage tower model) and number 90 (the Carthage Tariff), which contained a bevelled architectural ornamentation.

[3] Nathan Davis initially translated it in Latin as follows: "vovit Baâl-Malek, filius Àchar, ob filium mortuum.