Guelaât Bou Sbaâ Neopunic Inscriptions
The Guelaât Bou Sbaâ Neopunic inscriptions are two Neopunic inscriptions – one bilingual with Latin – discovered in 1882–84 in Guelaât Bou Sbaâ, about 10 km from Guelma in Algeria. The bilingual inscription is known as Kanaanäische und Aramäische Inschriften, KAI 165, with the Latin part known as Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, CIL 17467. They have been compared to the Ain Nechma inscriptions found nearby. Bilingual inscription The bilingual inscriptions were discovered at the end of 1884 by workers digging up a vine on the property of a Mr. Boivin, a notary living in Guelma. The bilingual is oblong in shape and measures 89 x 28 x 26 cm. It was first published in 1886 by Alexandre Napier, the curator of the Annaba Museum (''Musée de Bône'', the predecessor of the :fr:Musée d'Hippone, Musée d'Hippone). It was published again in 1916 by Jean-Baptiste Chabot after he had been sent a stamping by Stéphane Gsell. As of 1916, the bilingual inscription was embe ...
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