The inscription reads (in Phoenician) "Bodastarte, the son of Eshmunazar, the king of Sidon, has ordered this temple to be built for the god Eshmun". Second half of the sixth century BCE. From the foundation wall of the Eshmun Temple at Sidon, in modern-day Lebanon. (Museum of Archaeology, Istanbul, Turkey).
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