Corpus ASOR Punic Project :: The Phoenician-Punic Corpus
DPPC

tn1car0033

repository
København, Nationalmuseet Danmarks ABb 92
plaster cast: Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden CF*6 (CAa4)

material
Micritic limestone

form
Stela

measure
x .135m, y .120m, z .400m

findspot
QRTḤDŠT Carthago (mod. Carthage)
Precinct of Tinnit and Ba‘l

date
300-150 BCE

provenance
Discovered by von Scheel (1832), Danish consul to the beylik of Tunis; cast donation/exchange by his attaché Christian Tuxen Falbe (1838)

image

3D model

Phoenician
continuous

𐤋𐤓𐤁𐤕𐤋𐤕𐤍𐤕𐤐𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋𐤅𐤋𐤀𐤃𐤍𐤋𐤁𐤏𐤋𐤇𐤌𐤍𐤀𐤔𐤍𐤃𐤓𐤏𐤁𐤃𐤌𐤋𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤄𐤔𐤐𐤈𐤁𐤍𐤁𐤃𐤌𐤋𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤁𐤍𐤄𐤍𐤀
Hebrew
line breaks

לרבת לתנת פנ בע
ל ולאדנ לבעל חמנ
אש נדר עבדמלקר
ת השפט בנ בדמל
קרת בנ הנא

transcription
clause breaks
¹LRBT LTNT PN Bᶜ²L
WLᵓDN LBᶜL ḤMN
³ᵓŠ NDR ᶜBDMLQR⁴T HŠPṬ BN BDML⁵QRT BN ḤNᵓ

translation
To the Mistress, to Tinnit Visage-of-Baᶜl
and to the Lord, to Baᶜl Ḥammon
(this is the votive)
which ᶜBDMLQRT, the sufes, son of BDMLQRT son of HNᵓ vowed

iconography
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

apparatus


commentary
between ll.2-3: elision of the antecedent to the relative clause

bibliography
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
  BKGarnand 15 VI 24