Safatba'al inscription explained

Created:	900 BC
Discovered Date:	1936
Discovered Place:	Byblos, Keserwan-Jbeil, Lebanon
Location:	Beirut, Beirut Governorate, Lebanon

The Safatba'al inscription or the Shipitbaal inscription is a Phoenician inscription (KAI 7, TSSI III 9) found in Byblos in 1936, published in 1945.^{[1] [2]}

It is at the National Museum of Beirut.

Text of the inscription

The inscription reads:^[3]

Bibliography

• Christopher Rollston, "The Dating of the Early Royal Byblian Phoenician Inscriptions: A Response to Benjamin Sass." MAARAV 15 (2008): 57–93.
• Benjamin Mazar, The Phoenician Inscriptions from Byblos and the Evolution of the Phoenician-Hebrew Alphabet, in The Early Biblical Period: Historical Studies (S. Ahituv and B. A. Levine, eds., Jerusalem: IES, 1986 [original publication: 1946]): 231–247.
• William F. Albright, The Phoenician Inscriptions of the Tenth Century B.C. from Byblus, JAOS 67 (1947): 153–154.
• Book: Vriezen, Theodoor Christiaan. Palestine Inscriptions. 1951. Brill Archive. GGKEY:WGXUQKP9C87.

Notes and References

1. [Maurice Dunand]
2. Web site: Middle East Kingdoms- Ancient Central Levant States. Kessler Associates. 23 May 2017.
3. Book: Donner . Herbert . Rölig . Wolfgang . Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften . 2002 . Harrassowitz . Wiesbaden . I, 2 . 5.