Ma'sub inscription
Masub inscription | |
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Created | 221 BC in Umm al-Amad, Ptolemaic Kingdom |
Discovered | 1887 Northern Israel |
Present location | The Louvre |
Language | Phoenician |
The Ma'sub inscription is a
Provenance
It is considered by the Louvre to originate from
Clermont-Ganneau and has also been recently contested by Friedman and Ecker, who see no reason to construe a new provenance and suggest that a second Astarte temple, a twin to the northern one from Umm al-Amad, was built at the southern entrance to the Ladder of Tyre pass, i.e. at or near Ma'sub, thus creating a ritual "bracket" for the pass.[2] In Dunand and Duru's catalogue of Umm al-Amad inscriptions, it is number iv.[6]
Inscription
The inscription is given as:[7][8]
(2)
PLY
’Š
BN
H’LM
ML’K
MLK
-th (side), which the ʾElim (gods), the envoys of (the divine couple) Milk-
(3)
‘ŠTRT
W‘BDY
B‘L
ḤMN
ʿAshtart and the servants of
Baʿal Ḥammon
(dedicated)
(4)
L‘ŠTRT
B’ŠRT
’L
ḤMN
to ʿAshtart, in the holy courtyard of the god Ḥammon
(8)
YM
ŠLŠ
ḤMŠM
ŠT
L‘M
[ṢR]
-phoi (literally "the gods-brothers"), (in the) three-(and)-fiftieth year of the people of [Tyre],
(9)
KM’Š
BN
’YT
KL
’ḤRY
[HMQ]
as also they built all of the other tem-
(10)
[DŠ]M
’Š
B’RṢ
LKN
LM
L[SKR]
-ples which are in the land, to be to them for [memory]
(11)
[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.
- ^ a b c Friedman, Reuven; Ecker, Avner (2019). "Provenance and Political Borders: A Phoenician Inscription of the Hellenistic Period 'Strays' Across Modern Borders". Israel Exploration Journal. 69 (1): 60–72. Retrieved 29 March 2024.
- ^ stèle, Louvre website (in French). Accessed 28 March 2024.
- ^ C. Clermont-Ganneau (1887)."Deux inscriptions phéniciennes inédites de la Phénicie propre", Paris: E. Leroux.
- ^ TSSI, III, inscription 31
- ^ Dunand, M.; Duru, R. (1962). Oumm el-'Amed: une ville de l'époque hellénistique aux échelles de Tyr [Umm el-'Amed: A Hellenistic-period City from the Ladder of Tyrus] (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.