Bym qbr ’lm. La divinità sepolta nell’iscrizione fenicia di Pyrgi

The Phoenician text of Pyrgi, discovered on July 8, 1964, alongside the famous Etruscan foils, represents one of the most significant historical and cultural testimonies related to the connections of the Phoenicians, probably from Carthage, with the Etruscan community of Caere. This inscription, as is known, prompts reflection on various aspects, including the general historical, linguistic, and religious context of which it was part. More specifically, one of the questions that the document arises is represented by the possibility to identify the divine personality hidden beyond the sentence bym qbr ’lm, “in the day of the burial of the divinity”. This study, then, aims to retrace the theme and the problems connected; in particular it will try to offer, through a critical analysis of various possibilities of interpretation, a scale of likelihood for the different hypotheses proposed, offering new insights