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repository
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København, Nationalmuseet Danmarks ABb 92
plaster cast: Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden CF*6 (CAa4)
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material
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Micritic limestone
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form
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Stela
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measure
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x .135m, y .120m, z .400m
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findspot
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Carthage, Precinct of Tinnit and Ba‘l
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date
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300-150 BCE
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provenance
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Discovered by von Scheel (1832), Danish consul to the bey of Tunis; cast donation/exchange by his attaché Christian Tuxen Falbe (1838)
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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 Bᶜ²L
WLᵓDN LBᶜL ḤMN
³ᵓŠ NDR ᶜBDMLQR⁴T HŠPṬ BN BDML⁵QRT BN HNᵓ
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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 he vowed did ᶜBDMLQRT the sufes, son of BDMLQRT son of HNᵓ
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iconography
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In fronton, “Sign of Tanit” with rosettes to each side; egg-and-dart band; three florettes within cartouche; inscription within cartouche; hand and forearm between paired caduceus
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apparatus
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commentary
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between ll.2-3: elision of the antecedent to the relative clause
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bibliography
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CIS I.199 (Falbe 1); Falbe 1833: pl.V.3. (premiére de Copenhague); Carthagenensis quinta in Gesenius 1837 and Euting 1883; cf. Schröder 1869: Karth.6 (sic); Leemans 1842; Lidzbarski 1898: 431, 2.D.a.10 Taf.xiv.3; Hoftijzer 1963: n10; Sznycer 2001: 43
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