Masub inscription | |
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![]() The inscription at the Louvre | |
Created | 221 BC in Umm al-Amad, Ptolemaic Kingdom |
Discovered | 1887 Northern Israel |
Present location | The Louvre |
Language | Phoenician |
The Masub inscription is a Phoenician-language inscription found at Khirbet Ma'sub (also Masoub) near Al-Bassa.[1] The inscription is from 221 BC.[1] Written in Phoenician script,[2] it is also known as KAI 19.[3]
It is considered to originate from Umm al-Amad, Lebanon, around 6 km to the north, on the basis of the reference to the temple in the inscription.[4] In Dunand and Duru's catalogue of Umm al-Amad inscriptions, it is number iv.[5]
Inscription
The inscription is given as:[6][7]
PLY
’Š
BN
H’LM
ML’K
MLK
-th (side), which the ʾElim (gods), the envoys of (the divine couple) Milk-
L‘ŠTRT
B’ŠRT
’L
ḤMN
to ʿAshtart, in the holy courtyard of the god Ḥammon
YM
ŠLŠ
ḤMŠM
ŠT
L‘M
[ṢR]
-phoi (literally "the gods-brothers"), (in the) three-(and)-fiftieth year of the people of [Tyre],
KM’Š
BN
’YT
KL
’ḤRY
[HMQ]
as also they built all of the other tem-
[DŠ]M
’Š
B’RṢ
LKN
LM
L[SKR]
-ples which are in the land, to be to them for [memory]
[WŠM
N‘M
‘D]
‘LM
[and good name for] eternity.
Notes
- ^ a b Slouschz, Nahoum (1942). Thesaurus of Phoenician Inscriptions (in Hebrew). Dvir. p. 44.
- ^ stèle, Louvre website (in French). Accessed 28 March 2024.
- ^ Deux inscriptions phéniciennes inédites de la Phénicie propre, 1887.
- ^ TSSI, III, inscription 31
- ^ Dunand, M.; Duru, R. (1962). Oumm el-'Amed: une ville de l'époque hellénistique aux échelles de Tyr ... Oumm el-'Amed: une ville de l'époque hellénistique aux échelles de Tyr (in French). Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient. Retrieved 2021-12-11.
- ^ George Albert Cooke, A Text-book of North-Semitic Inscriptions: Moabite, Hebrew, Phoenician, Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene, Jewish, 1903, no.10
- ^ Slouschz, Nahoum (1942). Thesaurus of Phoenician Inscriptions (in Hebrew). Dvir. pp. 44–45.
References
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