Abraham da Cagliari

Abraham da Cagliari was a rabbi at Cagliari, Sardinia, in the eighth century. He is mentioned by Antonio di Tharos, a historian of the time, and by Delotone, in his Ritmo di Gialeto. The latter relates that Abraham interpreted many Phoenician inscriptions collected by the Sardinian king Gialeto; and the former that, together with another Jewish scholar named Canaim, he deciphered Greek and Phoenician inscriptions found in the palace of Masu. Anyway, all this account is totally fake: this Abraham from Cagliari never existed, and ficticious caracters are both Antonio from Tharros and Gialeto. Infact they all were created in a XIX century conspiration known ad the Fake Charts of Arborea, a series of false medieval writings which depicted an immaginary and idilliac history of Sardinia during medieval time. The fake was debunked by Theodor Momsemm

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•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)