Fingere l'identità fenicia. Melqart 'di/sopra ?r

This paper aims to propose some reflections about collective identity, starting from a specific case study: a small corpus of Phoenician inscriptions, widespread from Tyre to Ibiza, whose dedication formulae define the god Melqart bsr, b<l sr and <l hsr. Recalling the homeland (Tyre, sr) and the founding memory of the origins, such a documentation allows to follow some steps of a sort of "Tyrian" identity creation, in the perspective of a cultural phenomenon of construction and "pretense".