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]

(1)‘RPT KBRT MṢ’ ŠMŠ WṢThe portico on the quarter? of the sunrise, and the nor-
(2)PLY ’Š BN H’LM ML’K MLK-th (side) of it, which the Elim, the envoys of Milk-
(3)‘ŠTRT W‘BDY B‘L ḤMNʿAshtart and her servants, the citizens of Ḥammon, (built)
(4)L‘ŠTRT B’ŠRT ’L ḤMNto ʿAshtart, in the ashērah,? to (the) god Ḥammon
(5)BŠT 20 3 3 LPTLMYS ’DNin the 50th? year of Ptolemy, lord
(6)MLKM H’DR P‘L N‘M BN PTof kings, (the) noble, (the) beneficent, son of Pto-
(7)LMYS W’RSN’S ’LN ’[Ḥ]-lemy and Arsinoë, the divine A[del]-
(8)YM ŠLŠ ḤMŠM ŠT L‘M [ṢR]-phoi, (in the) three-(and)-fiftieth year of the people of [Tyre],
(9)KM’Š BN ’YT KL ’ḤRYas also they built the re-
(10)M ’Š B’RṢ LKN LM L-st which (is) in the land, to be to them for
(11)‘LMeternity.

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

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