The Son of Safatba'al inscription is a Phoenician inscription (KAI 9) dated to 500-475 BCE. It was published in Maurice Dunand's ''Fouilles de Byblos'' (volume I, 1926–1932, numbers 1143, plate XXXIII). It is currently at the

National Museum of Beirut The National Museum of Beirut (, ''Matḥaf Bayrūt al-waṭanī'') is the principal museum of archaeology in Lebanon. The collection begun after World War I, and the museum was officially opened in 1942. The museum has collections totaling about ...

Text of the inscription

Three parts of the inscription are extant. The largest, fragment A (six lines), reads: Byblos inscription KAI 9 fragments B C

Two smaller fragments, B and C, have been joined together and are now known as fragment B. It reads:

Bibliography

* Christopher Rollston,
The Dating of the Early Royal Byblian Phoenician Inscriptions: A Response to Benjamin Sass
" ''MAARAV'' 15 (2008): 57–93. *

Benjamin Mazar Benjamin Mazar (; born Binyamin Zeev Maisler, June 28, 1906 – September 9, 1995) was a pioneering Israeli historian, recognized as the "dean" of biblical archaeologists. He shared the national passion for the archaeology of Israel that also at ...

, 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 riginal publication: 1946: 231–247. *

William F. Albright William Foxwell Albright (May 24, 1891 – September 19, 1971) was an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, philologist, and expert on ceramics. He is considered "one of the twentieth century's most influential American biblical scholars ...

, The Phoenician Inscriptions of the Tenth Century B.C. from Byblus, JAOS 67 (1947): 153–154.

References

{{reflist Phoenician inscriptions Collection of the National Museum of Beirut KAI inscriptions Kings of Byblos Inscriptions of Lebanon 5th-century BC inscriptions 20th-century archaeological discoveries