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Reade Punic Inscriptions
The Reade Punic Inscriptions refer to four Phoenician-language funerary inscriptions discovered in 1836-1837 by Sir Thomas Reade, who had recently been appointed as the British consul general in Tunis. The inscriptions — three from Carthage and one from Numidia — were documented and published in the appendix (''Appendix Altera'') of the second volume of Wilhelm Gesenius’s ''Scripturae Linguaeque Phoeniciae''; Gesenius had received the inscriptions via Friedrich August Rosen shortly before he was due to publish the volume. Discovery The inscriptions were discovered in or before 1835 during a wave of European interest in Punic antiquities. According to Gesenius, the inscriptions were copied and drawn by Filippo Basiola Honegger,Drissi, Hatem.Un aspect de l’anticomanie dans la régence de Tunis: La collection du consul anglais Sir Thomas Reade Hespéris-Tamuda 57.2 (2022): 309-327. a German associate of Reade. Three inscriptions were found embedded in reused masonry withi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carthage Inscriptions 11-13 And Numidian Inscription 8 In 1837 Scripturae Linguaeque Phoeniciae Monumenta
Carthage was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the classical world. It became the capital city of the civilization of Ancient Carthage and later Roman Carthage. The city developed from a Phoenician colony into the capital of a Punic people, Punic empire which dominated large parts of the Southwest Mediterranean during the first millennium BC. The legendary Queen Elissa, Alyssa or Dido, originally from Tyre, Lebanon, Tyre, is regarded as the founder of the city, though her historicity has been questioned. In the myth, Dido asked for land from a local tribe, which told her that she could get as much land as an oxhide could cover. She cut the oxhide into strips and laid out the perimeter of the new city. As Carthage prospered at home, the polity sent colonists abroad as well as magistrates to rule t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
