Social:Safatba'al inscription
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The Safatba'al inscription or the Shipitbaal inscription is a Phoenician inscription (KAI 7, TSSI III 9) found in Byblos in 1936,[1] published in 1945.[2][3]
It is at the National Museum of Beirut.
Text of the inscription
The inscription reads:[4]
(1) QR Z BNY ŠPṬB‘L MLK This wall was built by Safatbaal, king (2) GBL BN ’LB‘L MLK GBL of Byblos, son of Elibaal, king of Byblos, (3) BYḤMLK MLK GBL LB‘LT son of Yehimelk, king of Byblos, for Baalat (4) GBL ’DTW T’RK B‘LT GBL Gebal, his Lady. May Baalat Gebal prolong (5) YMT ŠPṬB‘L WŠNTW ‘L GBL the days of Safatbaal and his years over Byblos.
Bibliography
- Christopher Rollston, "The Dating of the Early Royal Byblian Phoenician Inscriptions: A Response to Benjamin Sass." MAARAV 15 (2008): 57–93.
- Benjamin Mazar, The Phoenician Inscriptions from Byblos and the Evolution of the Phoenician-Hebrew Alphabet, in The Early Biblical Period: Historical Studies (S. Ahituv and B. A. Levine, eds., Jerusalem: IES, 1986 [original publication: 1946]): 231–247.
- William F. Albright, The Phoenician Inscriptions of the Tenth Century B.C. from Byblus, JAOS 67 (1947): 153–154.
- Vriezen, Theodoor Christiaan (1951). Palestine Inscriptions. Brill Archive. GGKEY:WGXUQKP9C87. https://books.google.com/books?id=JeYUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA12.
References
- ↑ Vriezen 1951, p. 11.
- ↑ Maurice Dunand, Biblia Grammata: Documents et Recherches sur le Dévelopment de L'écriture en Phénicie (Beyrouth: Direction des Antiquité, 1945): 146–151.
- ↑ "Middle East Kingdoms- Ancient Central Levant States". Kessler Associates. http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsMiddEast/CanaanByblos.htm.
- ↑ Donner, Herbert; Rölig, Wolfgang (2002). Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften (5 ed.). Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. p. I, 2.
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