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KMAS0001

Khirbet Ma'sub, 222-221 BCE. Plaque. Dedicatory.
Transcription

ערפת כברת מצא שמש וץ פלי אש בן האלם מלאך מלך עשתרת ועבדי בעל חמן לעשתרת באשרת אל חמן בשת N לפתלמים אדן מלכם האדר פעל נעם בן פת למים וארסנאס אלן אח ים שלש חמסם שת לעם צר שמאש בן אית כל אחרי ם אש בארץ לשן לם ל עלמ

Translation

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

Diplomatic

[no diplomatic]

Terminus post quem:
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Languages

Phoenician, Hebrew

Dimensions

H: —; W: —; D: —

Date

222 BCE to 221 BCE

Current location

Louvre Museum

Figures

No figures described.

Bibliography

Source of diplomatic

  • Cooke, George Albert. A Text-Book of North-Semitic Inscriptions: Moabite, Hebrew, Phoenician, Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene, Jewish. Oxford: Clarendon, 1903. page 48-51.
    Zotero

Source of transcription

  • Cooke, George Albert. A Text-Book of North-Semitic Inscriptions: Moabite, Hebrew, Phoenician, Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene, Jewish. Oxford: Clarendon, 1903. page 48-51.
    Zotero

Source of translation

  • Cooke, George Albert. A Text-Book of North-Semitic Inscriptions: Moabite, Hebrew, Phoenician, Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene, Jewish. Oxford: Clarendon, 1903. page 48-51.
    Zotero
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