Masub inscription
The Masub inscription is a Phoenician inscription found at Khirbet Ma'sub (also Masoub) near the Palestinian village of Al-Bassa (overbuilt in 1950 by the Israeli moshav of Shlomi). It is also known as KAI 19.[1]
Masub inscription | |
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![]() The inscription at the Louvre | |
Writing | Phoenician |
Created | c. 222 BC |
Discovered | 1887 |
Present location | Louvre |
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.[2] In Dunand and Duru's catalogue of Umm al Amad inscriptions, it is number iv.[3]
Inscription
The inscription is given as:[4]
The portico on the quarter (?) of the sun-rise and the north side of it, which the Elim, the envoys of Milk-ʿAshtart and her servants, the citizens of Ḥammon, built ʿAshtart in the ashērah (?), the god of Ḥammon, in the 26th year of Ptolemy, lord of kings, the noble, the beneficent, son of Ptolemy and Arsinoē, the divine Adelphoi, in the 53rd year of the people of [Tyre] ; as also they built all the rest . . . which . in the land, to be to them for . . . ever.
Notes
- 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