Occasionally, but rarely, he describes his offering, and states the year in which it was set up.

Finally, he asks the deity to bless him.

The following are examples:-- INSCRIPTION OF UM-EL-AWAMID "To the lord Baal-Shamaim, [the vow] which was vowed by Abdelim, son of Mattan, son of Abdelim, son of Baal-Shomar, of the district of Laodicea.

This gateway and doors did I make in fulfilment of it.

I built it in the 180th year of the Lord of Kings, and in the 143rd year of the people of Tyre, that it might be to me a memorial and for a good name beneath the feet of my lord, Baal-Shamaim, for ever.