Abstract
- A new translation of the Nora Stone is proposed based on a division of the first extant line of text into two words: בת רשש. Thus reconstructed, I demonstrate that this line can be translated as “A house he beat down.” It is subsequently proposed that the ‘בת’ or “house” noted at the start of the Nora Stone may constitute a reference to the destruction of a Sardinian Nuraghic village, specifically Nuraghe Antigori. The identification is based on the usage of בת in contemporaneous Phoenician inscriptions to denote a royal house as well as its territories and people. An analogous, though less well developed, sociopolitical organization was present in Sardinian Nuraghic society in this period.