Masub inscription

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]

Masub inscription
The inscription at the Louvre
WritingPhoenician
Createdc. 222 BC
Discovered1887
Present locationLouvre

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][6]

(1)

‘RPT

KBRT

MṢ’

ŠMŠ

WṢ

‘RPT KBRT MṢ’ ŠMŠ WṢ

The great colonnade of (the side of) the sunrise, and its nor-

(2)

PLY

’Š

BN

H’LM

ML’K

MLK

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

‘ŠTRT W‘BDY B‘L ḤMN

ʿAshtart and the servants of Baʿal Ḥammon (dedicated)

(4)

L‘ŠTRT

B’ŠRT

’L

ḤMN

L‘ŠTRT B’ŠRT ’L ḤMN

to ʿAshtart, in the holy courtyard of the god Ḥammon

(5)

BŠT

20

3

3

LPTLMYS

’DN

BŠT 20 3 3 LPTLMYS ’DN

in the 26th year of Ptolemy, lord

(6)

MLKM

H’DR

P‘L

N‘M

BN

PT

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]

LMYS W’RSN’S ’LN ’[Ḥ]

-lemy and Arsinoë, the divine A[del]-

(8)

YM

ŠLŠ

ḤMŠM

ŠT

L‘M

[ṢR]

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]

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]

[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

[WŠM N‘M ‘D] ‘LM

[and good name for] eternity.

Notes

  1. Slouschz, Nahoum (1942). Thesaurus of Phoenician Inscriptions (in Hebrew). Dvir. p. 44.
  2. Deux inscriptions phéniciennes inédites de la Phénicie propre, 1887
  3. TSSI, III, inscription 31
  4. 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.
  5. George Albert Cooke, A Text-book of North-Semitic Inscriptions: Moabite, Hebrew, Phoenician, Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene, Jewish, 1903, no.10
  6. Slouschz, Nahoum (1942). Thesaurus of Phoenician Inscriptions (in Hebrew). Dvir. pp. 44–45.

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