amotbaal van Tounga

Inscriptie te Ain Tounga.
Amotbaal heeft een offer gebracht. Zij is de dochter van Berekbaal.

Berekbaal is weer de zoon van Naamel, echtgenoot van Abdmelqart.

Cis I 143 Santuacci

Santu Iacci or Santuiacci

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This is the finding place of an trilingue (greek-latin-punic) = CIS I 143 = KAI 166. Trilingues are very rare.

Santu Iacci is located near San Nicolo Gerei in the southeast quarter of Sardinia. Date: 1^st half of the 2^nd century BC.

Punic text:

To the lord, to Ešmoen m’rḥ, this altar of brons with a weight of 100 pounds, that was dedicated by ’klyn (Cleon), servant? or member of the corporation? Of ḥsgm, who are near the salt-pan? He has heard his voice, he has cured him: in the year of the suffetes Himilkat and Abdešmoen, son of Himilk.

The greek and latin texts are slightly different. In the punic text the word ḥsgm forms a problem. No idea what it means. Even the Italian enclosed text (Amadasi) has no solution. Furthermore the translations “member of the corporation’ and ‘salt-pan” are not certain.

RES250

RES 250

Memory stone of Baalyaton.

Found in Umm el Awamid.

The memory stone is fallen apart in three parts. Very luckily they could be fixed together without any problems. Date: 2^nd half 2^nd cent.BC. Now present in Kobnhavn, Ny Carlsberg (Collection Jacobsen).

First literature: Receuil d’Archéologie Orientale 5, 1903, 1-8.Paris.

Text :

Z  m Ṣ b t  s k r

B ‘ l y t n  b n

B ‘ l y t n   h r d/b

This is the memory stone of Baalyaton, son of Baalyaton hrd/b

The last word forms a problem. One can’t figure out the exact meaning. Maybe it stands for governor or head of the priests.

See: Note di Epigrafia fenicia I-IV, A.Catastini, RSF XIII, 1985.

RSF = Rivistate di studi fenicie.

Baalsamor

Memory stone of Baalšamor and his wife Amon in Umm el Awamid.

Date: 2^nd half of 2^nd cent.BC. Now present in Louvre, Paris.

First literature: L.Heuzy, CRAI, Paris, 1902 (205).

Text :

1. z  m Ṣ b t  b ‘ l š m r
2. y l  ’ m n  ’ š t  ’ š  ṭ n ’
3. l m  b n m  ‘ z b ‘ l  l ‘ l m

This is the memory stone of Baalšamor

and of Amon, his bride, which was erected

by their son Ozbaal for the eternity.

Baalšamor: Baal protect <him/me/you>

Ozbaal or Azbaal = Baal is strong.

See: Ch.R.Krahmalkov, Phoenician-Punic Dictionary, OLA 90, Leuven, 2000.

hamon res307

RES 307

Inscription on the bottom-side of a memory-stone from the 2nd half of the 2nd century BC.

It was found in Umm el Awamid in the southern part of Lebanon. Now present in Louvre, Paris.

Text: l b ‘ l y t n  b n  ‘ b d ḥ r  k h n  m l k ‘ š t r t

(memory stone) of Baalyaton, son of Abdhor, priest of Milkastart.

‘ b d ḥ r = abdhor = servant of Horus.

First literature: L.Heury, CRAI, Paris, 1902.

Le iscrizione fenicie dell'oriente, P.Magnanini , Roma 1973, instituto di studi del vicino

Oriente.

Magnanini makes use of hebrew signs in order to translate the Phoenician texts. It makes it a little more complicated, but it is still quite understandable.

Hamon cis 7

. CIS I, 7 = KAI 18.

Inscription found on a stone in Umm el-Awamid in the south of the Lebanon.

Date: 132 BC. Now present in Louvre, Paris.

1^st literature: E.Renan, Comptes rendus des scéances de l’Académie des inscriptions et belles lettres, Paris, 1862, 85.

G.Levi della Vida, Oriens Antiquus, 1965, 68.

Text:

1. [to the lord, to] Ba‘al-šamen is this dedicated by Abdelim
2. son of Matan, son of Abdelim, son of Ba‘alšamor
3. of the district of Laodicea. He made this entry
4. on his own costs. This was made in the year 180
5. of the lord of the kings, the year 143 of the people of
6. Tyrus, in order that one should remind his good name
7. to the feet of my lord Ba‘al-šamen
8. forever. That he will bless him.
   

Hamon cis 8

CIS I 8.

Inscription on a plinth of a stone found on the southern acropolis of Umm el-Awamid. Date: 2^nd half of the 2^nd century BC. Now present at Louvre in Paris.

Text:

1. To Milk ‘astart to the god of Hamon.
2. This is what is dedicated by Abdešmoen…..

1^st Literature: E.Renan, CRAI 1862, Paris (85).

M.Dunand/R.Duru, Oumm el ‘Amed, une ville de l’époque hellénistique aux échelles de Tyr, Paris, 1962, Paris (184).

Hamon is the classic name for Umm el-Awamid.