Matanbaal met de steltlopers

CIS I 4804.

Birds on high heels

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The woman of the birds on high heels.

= To the lady, to Tanit-pene-Baal and to the lord, to Baal Hammon, is this dedicated by Matanbaal, wife of Athenô, daughter of Himilkat, the sufete, because they have heard her voice.

Greeks were marrying also Carthaginians in Carthage. On a memory-stone out of the 3^rd-2^nd century BC we can read: lrbt l tnt pn b‘l wl ’dn l b‘l ḥmn ’š ndr mtnb‘l ’št ’ṭn’ bt ḥmlkt hšpṭ kšm’ql’ Athenô must be a Greek person, who was married to our woman Matanbaal.

On the memory-stone we see a lot of birds, a papyrus-plant and a beautiful vase.