Masub inscription

The Masub inscription is a Phoenician inscription found at Khirbet Ma'sub (also Masoub) near the Palestinian village of Al-Bassa (overbuilt in 1950 by the Israeli moshav of Shlomi). It is also known as KAI 19.[1]

Masub inscription
The Osorkon Bust, showing the Phoenician inscription on either side of the Egyptian cartouche
WritingPhoenician
Createdc. 222 BC
Discovered1887
Present locationLouvre

Inscription

The inscription is given as:[2]

The portico on the quarter (?) of the sun-rise and the north side of it, which the Elim, the envoys of Milk-ʿAshtart and her servants, the citizens of Ḥammon, built ʿAshtart in the ashērah (?), the god of Ḥammon, in the 26th year of Ptolemy, lord of kings, the noble, the beneficent, son of Ptolemy and Arsinoē, the divine Adelphoi, in the 53rd year of the people of [Tyre] ; as also they built all the rest . . . which . in the land, to be to them for . . . ever.

Notes
  1. Deux inscriptions phéniciennes inédites de la Phénicie propre, 1887
  2. George Albert Cooke, A Text-book of North-Semitic Inscriptions: Moabite, Hebrew, Phoenician, Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene, Jewish, 1903, no.10

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