Osorkon Bust information

Osorkon Bust
Osorkon Bust
	The Osorkon Bust, showing the Phoenician inscription on either side of the Egyptian cartouche
Material	Quartzite
Height	60 cm
Writing	Phoenician
Created	c. 900 BC
Discovered	c. 1881; Byblos, Keserwan-Jbeil, Lebanon
Present location	Louvre
Identification	AO 9502

The Osorkon Bust, also known as the Eliba'l Inscription is a bust of Egyptian pharaoh Osorkon I, discovered in Byblos (in today's Lebanon) in the 19th century. Like the Tabnit sarcophagus from Sidon, it is decorated with two separate and unrelated inscriptions – one in Egyptian hieroglyphics and one in Phoenician script. It was created in the early 10th century BC, and was unearthed c. 1881,^[1] very likely in the Temple of Baalat Gebal.

The Egyptian writing is the prenomen of Osorkon, and the Phoenician is a dedication to Elibaal, the king of Byblos.

The details of the find were published in by French archaeologist René Dussaud in 1925.^[1]

The bust is made of quartzite, and is 60 cm × 36 cm × 37.5 cm.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Vriezen 1951, p. 10.
^ Louvre Osorkon Bust

[FOOTNOTEVriezen195110-1] Vriezen 1951, p. 10.

[2] Louvre Osorkon Bust

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