Social:Masub inscription
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| Masub inscription | |
|---|---|
 The inscription at the Louvre | |
| Writing | Phoenician |
| Created | c. 222 BC |
| Discovered | 1887 |
| Present location | Louvre |
The Masub inscription is a Phoenician inscription found at Khirbet Ma'sub (also Masoub) near Al-Bassa/Betzet.[1] The inscription is from 221 BC.[1] It is also known as KAI 19.[2]
It is considered to originate from Umm al-Amad, Lebanon, around 6km to the north, on the basis of the reference to the temple in the inscription.[3] In Dunand and Duru's catalogue of Umm al Amad inscriptions, it is number iv.[4]
Inscription
The inscription is given as:[5]
(1) ‘RPT KBRT MṢ’ ŠMŠ WṢ The portico on the quarter? of the sunrise, and the nor- (2) PLY ’Š BN H’LM ML’K MLK -th (side) of it, which the Elim, the envoys of Milk- (3) ‘ŠTRT W‘BDY B‘L ḤMN ʿAshtart and her servants, the citizens of Ḥammon, (built) (4) L‘ŠTRT B’ŠRT ’L ḤMN to ʿAshtart, in the ashērah,? to (the) god Ḥammon (5) BŠT 20 3 3 LPTLMYS ’DN in the 50th? year of Ptolemy, lord (6) MLKM H’DR P‘L N‘M BN PT of kings, (the) noble, (the) beneficent, son of Pto- (7) LMYS W’RSN’S ’LN ’[Ḥ] -lemy and Arsinoë, the divine A[del]- (8) YM ŠLŠ ḤMŠM ŠT L‘M [ṢR] -phoi, (in the) three-(and)-fiftieth year of the people of [Tyre], (9) KM’Š BN ’YT KL ’ḤRY as also they built the re- (10) M ’Š B’RṢ LKN LM L -st which (is) in the land, to be to them for (11) ‘LM eternity.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Slouschz, Nahoum (1942) (in he). Thesaurus of Phoenician Inscriptions. Dvir. pp. 44.
- ↑ Deux inscriptions phéniciennes inédites de la Phénicie propre, 1887
- ↑ TSSI, III, inscription 31
- ↑ Dunand, M.; Duru, R. (1962) (in fr). 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. Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient. https://books.google.com/books?id=iDfsAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 2021-12-11.
- ↑ George Albert Cooke, A Text-book of North-Semitic Inscriptions: Moabite, Hebrew, Phoenician, Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene, Jewish, 1903, no.10
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