Masub inscription

Masub inscription
Masub inscription
	The inscription at the Louvre
Writing	Phoenician
Created	c. 222 BC
Discovered	1887
Present location	Louvre

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).^{[citation needed]}It is also known as KAI 19.^[1]

Inscription[]

The inscription is given as:^[2]

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
^ George Albert Cooke, A Text-book of North-Semitic Inscriptions: Moabite, Hebrew, Phoenician, Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene, Jewish, 1903, no.10

References[]

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[1] Deux inscriptions phéniciennes inédites de la Phénicie propre, 1887

[2] George Albert Cooke, A Text-book of North-Semitic Inscriptions: Moabite, Hebrew, Phoenician, Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene, Jewish, 1903, no.10

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