Corpus ASOR Punic Project :: The Phoenician-Punic Corpus
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repository
Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden 4ᵇⁱˢ (CAa5)

material
Micritic limestone

form
Fragmentary stela

measure
x .150m, y .000m, z .170m

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

date
400-250 BCE

provenance
First discovered (1817) then donated by J. E. Humbert (1821), Dutch military attaché to the beylik of Tunis

image

3D model


Phoenician
continuous

[ . . . . . . ]𐤍𐤕𐤐𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋[ . . . . . . . . . ]𐤇𐤌𐤍𐤀𐤔𐤍[ . . . . . . . . ]𐤋𐤁𐤏𐤋𐤁𐤍[ . . . . . . . . . ]𐤁𐤍𐤀𐤔[ . .
Hebrew
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[לרבת לת]נת פנ בעל
[ולאדנ לבע]ל חמנ אש נ
[דר . . בנ . . ]לבעל בנ
[בנ . ] בנ [ . ] אש
[מנחלצ]

transcription
clause breaks

¹[lrbt lt]NT PN BᶜL
²[wlᵓdn lbᶜ]L ḤMN ᵓŠ N
³[dr . . bn . . ]LBᶜL BN
⁴[ . . bn . . ] BN ᵓŠ
⁵[mnḥlṣ . . . ]

translation
To the Mistress, to Tinnit Visage-of-Baᶜl
and to the Lord, to Baᶜl Ḥammon
(this is the votive)
which [PN son of . ]LBᶜL son of [ PN ] son of ᵓŠMNḤLṢ vowed.

iconography


apparatus


commentary
ll.1-2: divine names, titles, and epithets resored from parallel dedicatory formulae

bibliography
CIS I.439; Humbert 1821: nᵒ5; Carthagenensis quarta in Gesenius 1837: nᵒ49 and Euting 1883; cf. Schröder 1869: Karth.5 (sic); Leemans 1842; Hoftijzer 1963: nᵒ4; Halbertsma 1995: pl.6.2
note that the numeration of Humbert in the RMO archives (H 4ᵇⁱˢ) and Hoftijzer (nᵒ4) corresponds neither to Humbert's aquarelle (HTC78a nᵒ5) nor to the CIS (nᵒ5).
  BKGarnand 15 VI 24