Punic inscriptions in Tunisia
Maktar inscriptions |
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The Grand Dedicatory Inscription, in ten parts (KAI 145) |
Writing | Punic |
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Discovered | 1892 |
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The Maktar and Mididi inscriptions are a number of Punic language inscriptions, found in the 1890s at Maktar and Mididi, Tunisia. A number of the most notable inscriptions have been collected in Kanaanäische und Aramäische Inschriften, and are known as are known as KAI 145-158.
More than 150 such inscriptions were known by the end of the 19th century.[1]
- ^ Les Inscriptions de Constantine au Musee de Louvre par Philippe Berger, Actes du onzième congrès international des Orientalistes. Paris, 1897. Section 4 Congrès international des orientalistes, 1897, p.273 onwards: "Telle qu'elle est, la collection des inscriptions de Constantine, qui ne comprend pas moins de 150 numéros, forme, après Carthage et Maktar, la série la plus complète des inscriptions phéniciennes d'Afrique."