Maltese star stone


Tal-Qadi Temple is a megalithic temple in Salina, limits of Naxxar, Malta. The site of Tal-Qadi was possibly in use around 4000 BC, during the Ġgantija phase of Maltese prehistory, but the temple itself was built during the Tarxien phase between3300 and 3000 BC.


During the early excavations, a broken globigerina limestone star map or a moon calendar showing five sections separated by lines, and incised with star-like figures and a crescent shape in the middle was found. Now located in the National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta, this version was hand carved by local Maltese craftsman, Felix Aquilina.


Bought from Malta Stone, one of the craft shops in Ta’ Qali Crafts Village, located in a former RAF wartime airfield in the outskirts of Attard, a few miles from Mdina and Rabat.