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location: Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (cast)
registry: RMO H AA 1 CAa7 (HTC 85e);
HMANE 1891.1.2
findspot: Vacca (Béja)? Sicca Veneria (el-Kef)?
precinct of Ba‘l
date:
measure: x.38, y.14, z.46m
material: limestone
iconography: figure depicted above (feet only survive); personified trinacria floating over bull at manger
inscription: NP 9
¹LᵓDN BᶜL ḤMN
Kᶜ ²ŠMᶜ QLᵓ BRKᵓ
M³HTᶜNT
RᵓDYBṬᵓ ⁴WṬYṬYᶜ
translation:
To the Lord Ba‘l Ḥammon
because he heard his voice and blessed him
as a gift
(he gave, did) Redemptus ...tius
provenance: purchase 1824
bibliography:
Hamaker 1828 Zeugitanae Tab.II.1
Gesenius 1837: nᵒ59 Numidica tertia Taf.23
Leemans 1842: CAa7
Schröder 1869: Neup.9
Euting 1883: Neop.9
Hoftijzer 1963: nᵒ8
Jongeling Tunisia OU N 2
notes: ignoring the formulaic system of Phoenician/Punic dedications, the translation could read simply "gift of Redemptus..."
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