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Falbe Punic Inscriptions
The Falbe Punic inscriptions are three Punic language, Punic inscriptions, found in Carthage by Christian Tuxen Falbe in 1833 in Husainid dynasty, Husainid Tunisia. They were discovered by Denmark’s consul to Tunis, von Scheel, near Cisterns of La Malga, La Malga (Carthage). They were published in his ''Recherches sur l'emplacement de Carthage''. Carthaginian tombstones The Carthaginian tombstone labelled number 3 in the image above is known in the National Museum of Denmark as NMD ABb 92, is known by the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum as CIS I 199, and as “Falbe 1”. It was discovered von Scheel near Cisterns of La Malga, La Malga (Carthage). The rectangular block labelled number 5 came into the hands of Lancelot-Théodore Turpin de Crissé, and is today located in the :fr:Logis Pincé, Logis Pincé museum in Angers, France, with ID number 293-2. It was also discovered near Cisterns of La Malga, La Malga (Carthage). Another Carthaginian tombstone was subsequently donated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punic Inscription In The British Museum First Published In 1833 By Christian Tuxen Falbe
The Punic people, usually known as the Carthaginians (and sometimes as Western Phoenicians), were a Semitic people who migrated from Phoenicia to the Western Mediterranean during the Early Iron Age. In modern scholarship, the term ''Punic'', the Latin equivalent of the Greek-derived term ''Phoenician'', is exclusively used to refer to Phoenicians in the western Mediterranean, following the line of the Greek East and Latin West. The largest Punic settlement was Ancient Carthage, but there were 300 other settlements along the North African coast from Leptis Magna in modern Libya to Mogador in southern Morocco, as well as western Sicily, southern Sardinia, the southern and eastern coasts of the Iberian Peninsula, Malta, and Ibiza. Their language, Punic, was a variety of Phoenician, one of the Northwest Semitic languages originating in the Levant. Literary sources report two moments of Tyrian settlements in the west, the first in the 12th century BC (the cities Utica, Lixus, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
