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repository
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Sousse, Musée archéologique (w/o inv.)
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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 .110-170m, y .150m, z .430m
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findspot
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Hadrumetum (mod. Sousse)
-Precinct of Ba‘l
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date
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150-100 BCE
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provenance
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1946
Discovered during post-war excavations by museum curator Alexis Truillot
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image
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3D model
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Phoenician
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𐤋𐤀𐤃𐤍𐤋𐤁𐤏𐤋𐤌𐤕𐤍𐤕𐤌𐤕𐤍𐤕𐤀𐤌𐤋𐤊𐤁𐤏𐤋𐤀𐤔𐤍𐤃𐤓𐤏𐤆𐤓𐤁𐤏𐤋𐤁𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋𐤇𐤍𐤀𐤁𐤍𐤁𐤏𐤋𐤉𐤕𐤍𐤀𐤔𐤁𐤏𐤌𐤀𐤉𐤕𐤍𐤌
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Hebrew
line breaks
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לאדנ לבעל מתנת
מתנתא מלכ בעל אש
נדר עזרבעל בנ
בעלחנא בנ בעלית
נ אש בעמ איתנמ
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transcription
clause breaks
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¹LᵓDN LBᶜL
MTNT
²MTNTᵓ MLK BᶜL
ᵓŠ ³NDR ᶜZRBᶜL BN ⁴BᶜLḤNᵓ BN BᶜLYT⁵N
ᵓŠ BᶜM ᵓYTNM
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translation
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To the Lord, to Baᶜl (Hammon)
(this is) a gift
as his gift of a mlk-offering of a b'l,
which ᶜZRBᶜL son of BᶜLḤNᵓ son of BᶜLYTN vowed,
a man among the people of ᵓYTNM
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iconography
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A “bottle idol“ atop a three-step socle upon an altar, followed by inscription
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apparatus
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commentary
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l.1-2 expansive description of the object dedicated, antecedent to the relative clause, as a “gift,” specified as “his gift“ (with pronominal suffix) in construct with the enigmatic syntagm mlk b'l, i.e. an offering (“causing to go forth“) of a noble (or “citizen“)
l.5 ᵓš b-ᶜm (“man representing the people” / “commons” / “assembly”)
l.3 the location of the polity ᵓytnm is unknown but mentioned elsewhere in Hatrumetum inscriptions (e.g. Sousse10 tn2sou0018)
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bibliography
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