The Agrigentum inscription is a Punic inscription (KAI 302, CIS i 5510) found in 1934 during the excavations led by Gabriel-Guillaume Lapeyre at "Salambo", the infant and children's cemetery (tophet) of Carthage, and published in 1942.[1] It probably refers to military events in Sicily in 406 BCE.
^Chabot, J.-B. (1941–1942). "Inscription carthaginoise". Bulletin archéologique du Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques: 387–394. Retrieved 7 May 2022. (BnF Gallica)
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south-western part of the island with settlements in the area of Gela and Agrigentum. The Sicani enter the historical record with the Phoenicians, who established...
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testimonies placed his birth at Chios, Tegea (Pseudo-Plutarch, Plac. Phil.), or Agrigentum (Clement of Alexandria, Protrept.; Arnobius, Adv. Gent.). Most modern...
re-founded on the right bank of the Salso in 282 BC, by Phintias, tyrant of Agrigentum, who named it for himself (Phintias), after razing the city of Gela and...
nearly all quinqueremes, commanded by Hanno, who had been defeated at Agrigentum six years earlier, and Hamilcar, the victor of the Battle of Thermae (not...
mercenaries planned to betray the city but Alexon, who had previously saved Agrigentum from similar treachery, foiled the plot by informing the Carthaginian...
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coin from sub-group B was overstruck by a coin of Agrigentum. Since minting activity ended at Agrigentum in 406 BC, when the Carthaginians destroyed the...
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and erected various splendid buildings. In around 287 BC Phintias of Agrigentum conquered the city, but after he had shown himself a bloodthirsty murderer...
before engaging in battle against the forces of Syracuse and its ally Agrigentum. The Greeks won a decisive victory, inflicting heavy losses on the Carthaginians...
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