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repository
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Louvain-la-Neuve, Musée L MB402
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material
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Micritic limestone
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form
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Fragmentary stela, pediment
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measure
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x .113m, y .090m, z .200m
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findspot
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Carthage, Precinct of Tinnit and Ba‘l (Regulus Salammbô sector)
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date
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400-150 BCE
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provenance
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Excavated by F. B. Kuhn de Prorok (1924) and held in his private residence in Paris ( CIS I, t.3, p.104); later bequeathed by the abbé J.-B. Chabot to Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (KULeuven); subsequently transferred to Louvain-la-Neuve (UCLouvain) along with the Archives Chabot, following linguistic division of the university in 1968
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image
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3D model
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Phoenician
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Hebrew
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transcription
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¹LRBT LTNT PN ²‹b›ᶜL
WLᵓDN LB³ᶜL ḤMN
ᵓŠ NDRᵓ ⁴[ᵓ]LŠT BT ᶜZ[rbᶜl]
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translation
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To the Mistress, to Tinnit Visage-of-Baᶜl
and to the Lord, to Baᶜl Ḥammon
(this is the votive)
which ᵓLŠT daughter of ᶜZRBᶜL vowed
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iconography
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None
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apparatus
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l.2 NᶜL in error for BᶜL
l.3 šin in ᵓŠ is poorly formed
l.4 ᵓLŠT with legible tail of ᵓalp
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commentary
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l.3: elision of the antecedent to the relative clause
l.4: rare occurrence of the feminine name ᵓEliššat (Elissa, cf. tn1car0011 Carth.11), the Phoenician name of Dido, found elsewhere as ᶜLŠY or ᵓLŠY ( Benz 1972: 379)
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bibliography
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