Yehimilk inscription
10th-century BC Phoenician inscription / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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Yehimilk inscription | |
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Created | c. 955 BC |
Discovered | before 1931 Byblos, Keserwan-Jbeil, Lebanon |
Present location | Byblos, Keserwan-Jbeil, Lebanon |
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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]