• DPPC

St. Petersburg, Hermitage Museum ДВ 18744

Micritic limestone

Stela

x .0m, y .0m, z .0m

Hadrumetum (mod. Sousse)
Precinct of Ba‘l

200-100 BCE

1863-1869
Discovered during construction of the Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Immaculée-Conception, either by the abbé Agostino da Reggio (1863) or the abbé Théodore Trihidez (1865-1869, see Bénichou-Safar 2016); removed and drawn by Julius Euting (1871), who donated them to the Hermitage in gratitude for publishing his Punische Steine (Yunusov 2018)

Euting Hadrum.07 (1871 PSt Taf.xxxii, 1883 SCI Anh.Taf.7)

Phoenician
continuous

𐤋𐤓𐤁𐤕𐤍𐤋𐤕𐤍𐤕𐤐𐤍𐤏𐤁𐤏𐤋𐤅𐤋𐤀𐤃𐤍𐤋𐤁𐤏𐤋𐤇𐤁𐤍𐤀𐤔𐤍𐤃𐤓𐤌𐤂𐤍𐤁𐤍𐤀𐤍𐤕𐤇𐤍

Hebrew
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לרבתנ לתנת פנע בעל
ולאדנ לבעל חבנ אש
נדר מגנ בנ אנתחנ

transcription
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¹LRBTN LTNT PNᶜ BᶜL
²WLᵓDN LBᶜL
HBN
ᵓŠ ³NDR MGN BN ᵓNTḤN

To our Mistress, to Tinnit Visage-of-Baᶜl
and to the Lord, to Baᶜl (Ḥammon)
(this is) the stone
which MGN son of ᵓNTḤN vowed

In fragmentary fronton, raised forearm with open palm; inscription; “Sign of Tanit” with caduceus on either side

l.2 assilmilation of H-ᵓBN or variant of ᵓBN

l.2 omission of the expected epithet ḥmn (“of Ḥammon”)
l.2 named antecedent with elided definite article (h-ᵓbn “the stone,” as translated) or with orthographic variation of the aspirate (ᵓbn “a stone”), an offering type attested elsewhere as the object of dedication (e.g. CIS I.3784–3785) or as an attribute of the dedication (e.g. CIS I.3777, 3921). The term less likely designates “the/his son” (h-bn), an offering type otherwise unattested in this votive syntax; also unlikely is a double lapsus (hbn for ḥmn)