Henchir Guergour Neopunic inscriptions
36°21′16″N 8°31′05″E / 36.354507°N 8.517999°E The Henchir Guergour Neopunic inscriptions are a series of ten Neopunic inscriptions discovered by René Cagnat at Henchir Guergour, also known as Masculula, near Touiref in the Kef Governorate of Tunisia.[1] Two of the inscriptions are known as KAI 143–144, and three are kept at the Louvre.
They were first published in 1916 by Jean-Baptiste Chabot.[2]
Discovery
In March 1881, French archaeologist
Ernst Renan, who had just published the first volume of Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum. In a second exploration in 1882, Cagoat discovered four more neo-Punic inscriptions, including one bilingual.[2]
The inscriptions
- Chabot 1 = AO 5296
- Chabot 2 = KAI 143 = AO 5297
- Chabot 3
- Chabot 4 = KAI 144
- Chabot 5 = AO 5105
- Chabot 6 (bilingual)
- Chabot 7
- Chabot 8
- Chabot 9
- Chabot 10, also J.-G. Février, Glanes Néopuniques, JA cclv, pp. 61–64. and G. Garbini, Dieci anni di epigrafia punica nel Magreb (1965-1974), StudMagr vi, p. 27
Gallery
References
- ISSN 0065-0536.
- ^ a b Jean-Baptiste Chabot, Punica IX, Journal asiatique, 1916, pages 450 et seq