The Yehawmilk stele, de Clercq stele, or Byblos stele, also known as KAI 10 and CIS I 1, is a Phoenician inscription from c.450 BC found in Byblos at the end of Ernest Renan's Mission de Phénicie. Yehawmilk (Phoenician 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤌𐤋𐤊 ), king of Byblos, dedicated the stele to the city’s protective goddess Ba'alat Gebal.
It was first published in full by Melchior de Vogüé in 1875. In the early 1930s, the bottom right corner of the stele was discovered by Maurice Dunand. The main part of the stele is in the Louvre, whilst the bottom right part is in the storerooms of the National Museum of Beirut and has never been on public display.
Text of the inscription
The inscription reads:
Footnotes
Citations
References
- Melchior de Vogüé, Stèle de Yehawmelek, roi de Gebal; Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 19ᵉ année, N. 1, 1875. pp. 24–49. DOI : https://doi.org/10.3406/crai.1875.68196
- L'Art Phénicien, La sculpture de tradition phénicienne, catalogue du musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquités Orientales, A. Caubet, E. Fontan, E. Gubel, 2002, Ed. de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, p. 64–65.
