Mentalism and beyond in Buddhist Philosophy

cated to Astarte because of any political or military event-in fact, line 6 would imply just the opposite. Many of the details which Garbini cites to establish a philological connection between Caere and Carthage are simply not cogent; thus his argument about the opening dedicatory formula and about the cult of Astarte at Carthage really prove nothing one way or the other. Among earlier commentators on the text S. Moscati sensed the Phoenician character of the text, but could only bring himself to describe it as fenicio-punica. A. Dupont-Sommer, M. Dahood, P. Nober, and J.-G. Fevrier were content to follow Garbini's designation of it as Punic. Only J. Ferron came out clearly for its Phoenician character. Though we disagree with most of his interpretation of the text, nevertheless in this respect we tend to agree with him.'2

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