This initiative will provide the first comprehensive corpus of Phoenician, Punic and Neo-Punic inscriptions in more than half a century. Many key sites (e.g. Cirta and Hadrumentum), many genres (e.g. funerary) and nearly all of the late inscriptions (e.g. Neo-Punic) had been excluded from the CIS (Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum, Pars I, 1881-1962), and none of the inscriptions discovered and published since, found in scattered journals, have ever been gathered into a single collection. The first effort at such a comprehensive database was made by our partners at the CIP (Corpus Inscriptionum Phoenicarum necnon Punicum), but it remains incomplete, a work-in-progress, protected behind a firewall and accessible to only those scholars with a password. Our corpus will help complete their work and bring nearly 10,200 inscriptions to the public in a searchable open-access database with critical apparatus, commentary, and sample translations.
 The work of digitally transcribing the CIS and related corpora is well underway, but we will now begin to mark up texts with encoding in XML that would record for each its dimensions, findspot, provenance, and iconography; with that markup each could be displayed in Phoenician, Hebrew or Latin (annotated) script or in multiple scripts as chosen by the user; each could be displayed without breaks (scriptio continua), with word and line breaks, or with clause breaks again as chosen by the user. The inscriptions will be searchable and sortable, will be linked to lexical and prosopographical resources, and will be interoperable with other Northwest Semitic databases (DaNWSI for Hebrew and Aramaic) as well as South Semitic (DASI). The Phoenicians, who once spread alphabetic writing across the Mediterranean, will finally have their language and their contributions represented in the Digital Humanities alongside their contemporaries. This digital corpus will expand Phoenician-Punic studies by making their language, their culture, and their civilization more accessible to the curious public instead of just to a few dedicated scholars.