Samʾal (Zincirli, Türkiye) c. 825 BCE KAI 24
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A king boasts of his reign in Phoenician, the prestige language of the region. The first word, 'I', is how royal inscriptions introduce their author. Note br for 'son': a borrowing from Aramaic, the local language.