Yehimilk inscription explained

Created:	955 BC
Discovered Date:	before 1931
Discovered Place:	Byblos, Keserwan-Jbeil, Lebanon
Location:	Byblos, Keserwan-Jbeil, Lebanon

The Yehimilk inscription is a Phoenician inscription (KAI 4 or TSSI III 6) published in 1930,^{[1] [2]} currently in the museum of Byblos Castle.

It was published in Maurice Dunand's Fouilles de Byblos (volume I, 1926–1932, numbers 1141, plate XXXI).^[3]

It is dated to the 10th century BCE, and contains the earliest known Phoenician reference to Baalshamin.^[4]

Text of the inscription

The inscription reads:^{[5] [6]}

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.
• Corinne Bonnet. Existe-t-il un B'l gbl. à Byblos. À propos de l'inscription de Yehimilk (KAI 4). Ugarit-Forschungen, 1993, 25, pp.25-34. ⟨hal-01865311⟩

Notes and References

1. [Maurice Dunand]
2. Web site: Middle East Kingdoms- Ancient Central Levant States. Kessler Associates. 23 May 2017.
3. Book: Dunand, Maurice. Fouilles de Byblos: Tome 1er, 1926-1932. Librarie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner. 1939. Bibliothèque archéologique et historique. 24. Paris. fr. The Byblos excavations, Tome 1, 1926–1932. none. and Book: Dunand, Maurice. Fouilles de Byblos, Tome 1er, 1926–1932 (Atlas). Librarie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner. 1937. Bibliothèque archéologique et historique. 24. Paris. French. The Byblos excavations, Tome 1, 1926–1932 (Atlas). https://gallica.bnf.fr. none.
4. Book: van der Toorn, K. . Becking . B. . van der Horst . P.W. . Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible . Eerdmans Publishing Company . 1999 . 978-0-8028-2491-2 . 2022-01-30 . 150.
5. Book: Donner . Herbert . Rölig . Wolfgang . Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften . 2002 . Harrassowitz . Wiesbaden . I, 1 . 5.
6. Book: Krahmalkov . Charles R. . Phoenician-Punic Dictionary . 2000 . Peeters / Departement Oosterse Studies . Leuven . 90-429-0770-3 . 106, 129, 179, 218.