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.