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repository
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desideratur (lost)
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material
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Micritic limestone
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form
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Stela, broken at top
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measure
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x .155m, y .055m, z .350m
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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 (subsequently lost)
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image
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3D model
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Phoenician
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𐤍𐤃𐤓𐤇𐤍𐤀𐤁𐤍𐤌𐤂𐤍𐤁[.]𐤇𐤍𐤀𐤁𐤍𐤁𐤍𐤄𐤁𐤏𐤌𐤀𐤉𐤕𐤍𐤌𐤊𐤔𐤌𐤏𐤒𐤋𐤉𐤁𐤓𐤊
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Hebrew
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נדר חנא בנ
מגנ בנ חנא בנ
ב[נ]ה בעמ איתנמ
כ שמע קל יברכ
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transcription
clause breaks
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¹NDR ḤNᵓ BN
²MGN BN ḤNᵓ BN
³B[n]H BᶜM ᵓYTNM
⁴K ŠMᶜ QL YBRK
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translation
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(To the deity/deities
this is the votive
which) ḤNᵓ son of MGN son of ḤNᵓ son of BNH,
(man) among the people of ᵓYTNM, vowed
because he heard his voice, he blessed him
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iconography
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Above, inset fragmentary “Sign of Tanit” (lower half only); inscription in bordered cartouche; below, inset crab; carved by the same hand/workshop as Sousse09 (tn2sou0017)
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apparatus
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commentary
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l.1 divine recipient unnammed (likely Ba‘l)
l.1 either interpreted as elision of both antecedent and relative before a dependent clause (as translated in parentheses), or as an independent clause
l.3 mutilated name restored from parallel Latin transcription (“Banno” e.g. CIL 4919, 4921)
l.3 expected term ᵓš (“man“) elided but understood before the preposition b-ᶜm (“representing the people” / “commons” / “assembly”)
l.3 the location of the polity ᵓytnm is unknown but mentioned elsewhere in Hatrumetum inscriptions (e.g. Sousse08 tn2sou0016)
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bibliography
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Dussaud 1946: stela B; Cintas 1947: T9 fig.61;
Février 1956; Fantar 1995: nᵒ4; Bénichou-Safar 2010: Sousse nᵒ10
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