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The Digital Phoenician-Punic Corpus

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Two centuries ago, aristocratic military officers first began to extract Punic inscriptions for European museums in the Netherlands (Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Humbert 1821), in England (British Museum, Temple 1835), and in Denmark (Nationalmuseet Danmarks, Falbe 1833). Such combinations of military-antiquarian interest and scholarly study developed in a competitive environment, as French officers were gathering artifacts for the Musée du Louvre and as the Earl of Elgin was taking artifacts from the Athenian acropolis to the British Museum. French colonization of Algeria (1830) accelerated such acquisitions across North Africa.
The philologist Wilhelm Gesenius visited London and Leiden in 1835 in order to autopsy all known Phoenician inscriptions or their casts (Lehmann 2013). Soon after, he published his Scripturæ linguæque phoeniciæ monumenta, or Monumenta (1837), which gave them sequential Latin numeration, site-by-site in order of discovery, and thereby assigned to inscriptions from Carthage (Carthaginensis, or Carth.) and from North Africa (Numidica, or Numid.) what would become their vulgate names. The correspondence between Gesenius' common names and later catalogs is consistent but not always precise, in part because later scholars omitted Carthaginensis decima from the sequence (as Libyan/Numidian rather than Punic). The following table displays texts in line-number order, derived from his catalog (nᵒˢ46-66) and its appendix (nᵒˢ81-84), with concordances. Because he collated these epigraphic texts after visiting Leiden, this tranche has significant overlap with our Hoftijzer tranche.

To view mocked-up samples made in anticipation of funding for what could be comprehensive digital corpus entries, click on highlighted provisional CIP numbers (*) marked with additional plus (++) signs, namely Leiden RMO H 4ᵇⁱˢ (tn1car0273*) and Copenhagen NMD ABb 92 (tn1car0033*) and ABb 149 (tn1car0021*).
Note that these are static lists, mock-ups rather than active search results from our database, presented here as proof-of-concept models, with epigraphic texts displayed in line order and transcribed in Latin characters with diacritics.

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sample tranches :: Gesenius || Hadrumetum || Hoftĳzer

tn1car0020*	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ46, Carthaginensis prima
Leiden, RMO H 3 (CAa3) Carth.001 CIS I.0186	¹[lrbt ltnt] P[n bᶜl] WLᵓDN LB ²[ᶜl] ḤMN ᵓŠ NᶜDR ᵓBDMLQRT ³[bn] ḤMLKT BN ᵓBDBᶜL
tn1car0021*	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ47, Carthaginensis secunda
Leiden, RMO H 2 (CAa2) Carth.002 CIS I.0187	¹[l]RBT LTNT PN BᶜL ²[w]LᵓDN LBᶜL ḤMN ³ᵓŠ NDR ᶜBDᵓŠM ⁴[n] BN BDᶜŠTRT BN ⁵[ᶜ]BᵓŠMN
tn1car0074*	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ48, Carthaginensis tertia
Leiden, RMO H 1 (CAa1) Carth.003 CIS I.0240	¹LRBT LTNT PN ²BᶜL WLᵓDN LB ³ᶜL ḤMN ᵓŠ ND ⁴R GRᶜŠTRT ⁵HSPR BN ᶜBDMLQRT
*tn1car0273++**	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ49, Carthaginensis quarta
Leiden, RMO H 4ᵇⁱˢ (CAa5) Carth.004 CIS I.0439	¹[lrbt lt]NT PN BᶜL ²[wlᵓdn lbᶜ]L ḤMN ᵓŠ N ³[dr . . bn . . ]LBᶜL BN ⁴[ . . bn . . ] BN ᵓŠ ⁵[mnḥlṣ . . . ]
*tn1car0033++**	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ50, Carthaginensis quinta
Copenhagen, NMD ABb 92 Carth.005 CIS I.0199	¹LRBT LTNT PN Bᶜ ²L WLᵓDN LBᶜL ḤMN ³ᵓŠ NDR ᶜBDMLQR ⁴T HŠPṬ BN BDML ⁵QRT BN HNᵓ
tn1car0274*	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ51, Carthaginensis sexta
Leiden, RMO H II ii 1 (CAa6) Carth.006 CIS I.0440	¹ [ . . . . .] BᶜL [ . . . . ] ²[ . . b]N ᶜBDMLQR ³[t b]N BᶜLḤNᵓ
tn1car0007*	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ52, Carthaginensis septima
desideratur Carth.007 CIS I.0173	¹[ . . . . . . . . . . . ] ²[ . . .]YMḤ[ . . . ]
tn1car6085*	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ53, Carthaginensis octava
Leiden, RMO HU 3 / HV (CAb1) Carth.008 Bénichou-Safar nᵒ62	¹QBR BTB[ᶜl] BT ḤMLKT BN ᶜBD ²BŠMN BN ᵓŠMNYTN BN BRY HRB
tn1car6086*	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ54, Carthaginensis nona
Angers, Musée Pincé 293-2 Carth.009 Bénichou-Safar nᵒ63	¹[ . . . ]Y HKBS ᶜBD ²ḤNᵓ BN ᶜBDᵓŠMN
	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ55, Carthaginensis decima
erratum
tn1car0013*	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ81, Carthaginensis undecima
desideratur Carth.010 CIS I.0179	¹[ . . . . ᵓš] ²[nd]R BDᶜŠTRT ³BN ᶜBDMLQR ⁴T BN ŠPṬBᶜL ⁵BYRḤ MRPᵓM ⁶ŠT ᵓDNBᶜL [w]G ⁷[r]DᶜŠTRT
tn1car0275*	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ82, Carthaginensis duodecima
desideratur Carth.011 CIS I.0441	¹[lrbt ltnt pn bᶜl] ²WLᵓDN LBᶜL ḤMN ³ᵓŠ NDRᵓ ᶜLŠT
tn1car0276*	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ83, Carthaginensis tertia decima
desideratur Carth.012 CIS I.0442	¹LRBT LTNT PN Bᶜ[l] ²WLᵓDN LBᶜL ḤMN ³ᵓŠ NDR[ . . . . . . . . ] ⁴M[ . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]
*tn1car0021++**	Gesenius 1835 Thesaurus p.1345
Copenhagen, NMD ABb 149 Carth.013 CIS I.0187	¹LRBT LTNT PN B ²ᶜL WLᵓDN LBᶜL Ḥ ³MN ᵓŠ NDR MTM ⁴LKT BT ŠPṬ
	cf. Gesenius 1835 Thesaurus p.1345
erratum Carth.14 — see tn1car0021
tn1car6087*
Paris, Louvre? Carth.015 Bénichou-Safar nᵒ71	¹QBR ZBG ᶜBD BᶜMLQRT BN ᶜZRBᶜL BN ²[ . . . . . . . . . ]
tn2dou0001*	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ56, Thuggensis bilinguis
London, ᴬBM 125226 (Punic), ᴮBM 125225 (Libyan) ᴬTucc.001, KAI 100 ᴮRIL 01	ᴬ¹[m]ṢBT • ŠᵓṬBN • BN • YPMṬT • BN • PLW ²HBNM • ŠᵓBNM • ᶜBᵓRŠ BN • ᶜBDŠTRT ³ZMR • BN • ᵓṬBN • BN • YPMṬT • BN • PLW • ⁴MNGY • BN • WRS[kn] ⁵YBᵓZRT • ŠLᵓ • --T • ZZY • WṬMN • WWRSKN • ⁶HḤRŠM • ŠYR • MSDL • BN NNPSN • WᵓNKN • B[n] • ᵓŠY ⁷HNSKM • Š BRZL • ŠPṬ • BN • BLL • WPPY • BN • BBY ᴮ¹[ nṭbn] • WJPMṬT • WP[l]W ²[ . . . . w]DRŠ • WWDŠTR ³[zmr • w]ṬBN • WJPMṬT • WPLW ⁴MNGJ WWRŚKN ⁵KŚLNS • ZZL • ṬMN • WRŚKN
tn2mak0001*	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ57, Numidica prima
London, BM 125044 (NPu21) Numid.001 NP007	¹LᵓDN BᶜL ḤMN Kᶜ ŠMᶜ ²QLM BRKM BᶜLᵓ HMKTᶜRM ³ᶜT R ᵓRŠM BN MSYRᶜN W ⁴YᶜSKTN BN MSYGRᶜN ⁵RB MᶜRWZᵓ BN BᶜLŠLK
tn2ign0001*	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ58, Numidica secunda
Copenhagen, NMD Abb 91 Numid.002 NP008	¹LᵓDN BᶜL ḤMN Kᶜ ŠMᶜ ²QLᵓ BRKᵓ SWṢKᵓ BN ³BRKBᶜL BN MᶜSGᶜBN
tn2ign0002*	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ59, Numidica tertia
Leiden, RMO H AA 1 (CAa7) Numid.003 NP009	¹LᵓDN BᶜL ḤMN Kᶜ ²ŠMᶜ QLᵓ BRKᵓ M ³HTᶜNT RᵓDYBṬᵓ ⁴WṬYṬYᶜ
tn2mak0002*	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ60, Numidica quarta
Leiden, RMO H III S 1 (CAa8) Numid.004 NP010	¹MSDYSᶜN [bn] ᶜYKNY MSGZBᶜN ²BᶜL WZ[ . ]ᵓ[ . ]ᵓY[ . ] NDR ᵓT ᵓNᶜDR ³LBᶜL ḤMN ŠMᶜ QLᵓ BRKᵓ
tn2mak0003*	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ61, Numidica quinta
London, BM 125056 (NPu01) Numid.005 NP011	¹NDᶜR ᵓŠ NᶜDR ḤNᵓ BN MTNBᶜL ²ŠYPŠ PGᶜ ᵓŠRM HᵓŠ
tn2skh0001*	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ62, Numidica sexta
Naples, MANN (w/o inv.) Numid.006 NP012	¹ṬᶜNᵓ ᶜBN Z LTᶜP[r] ²ᶜT BT ᶜWṬH ᵓṢD ³T Š YṢTᶜTᶜN BN MṢ ⁴LYᶜT ᶜŠT PRMH ⁵ᶜWᶜ ŠᶜNT [ . . .
tn2bej0001*	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ63, Numidica septima
Naples, MANN (w/o inv.) Numid.007 NP013	¹ṬᶜNᶜ ᵓBN Z LMTNBᶜL BN YᶜŠD ²BᶜY ᶜWᵓ ŠᶜNT ᶜSR ᶜMŠ
dz1kha0001*	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ84Numidica octava
desideratur Numid.008 NP014	¹LᵓDN BᶜL ḤMN Kᶜ ŠMᶜ ²QLᵓ BRKᵓ SWṢᵓ BN ³BRKBᶜL BN MᶜSGᶜB
ly1lma0001*	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ64, Tripolitana prima bilinguis
London, BM 1862,0527.2 Trip.001 ᴬCIL VIII.0007, IRT 349 ᴮNP001, IPT 09	ᴬ¹[imp(eratori) caes(ari) divi vespasian]I ⟦f(ilio) dom[itiano]⟧ ²[flamen] AUG(usti) SVFE[s . . . ] ᴮ¹[ . . . . . . . .]ᵓT/N LMLKT HMQM ᶜL M[ . . . . . . . ]
ly1lma0002*	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ65, Tripolitana altera
London, BM 1862,0527.1 Trip.002 NP002, IPT 10	¹PᶜL MᶜQR HRᶜS ²LQNᵓM WLᵓḤYᵓ ³ᶜYGᵓ WLWLᵓŠ/S ⁴LKN ᵓḤR BBRYᵓT
tn2jer0001*	Gesenius 1837 Monumenta nᵒ66, Gerbitana
desideratur Gerb.001 NP006	¹MNṢBT Mᵓ Bᶜ ²Nᵓ YWRḤTN ³BN ᶜWṬPᶜTN ⁴BN ḤSM BTṢ ⁵TM BTM

future supplement...	sample tranches :: Gesenius \|\| Hadrumetum \|\| Hoftĳzer

CIP	accession numbers	vulgate numbers / Gesenius	Euting	Schröder	CIS
mt1val 0001*	Paris AO 4818	Melitensis prima bilinguis Monumenta nᵒ01		Mel.001	I.0122
mt1val 0002*	Valetta MNA 100725	Melitensis prima bilinguis Monumenta nᵒ01		Mel.001	I.0122ᵇⁱˢ
mt1val 0003*	Paris BnF?	Melitensis altera (secunda) Monumenta nᵒ02		Mel.002	I.0124
mt1val 0004*	Valetta MNA 100725	Melitensis tertia Monumenta nᵒ03		Mel.003	I.0123
mt1val 0005*	desideratur	Melitensis quarta Monumenta nᵒ04		Mel.004	I.0123ᵇⁱˢ
gr2att 0002*	London BM 1937,1211.1	Atheniensis prima Monumenta nᵒ05		Ath.001	I.0116
gr2att 0003*	desideratur	Atheniensis secunda Monumenta nᵒ06		Ath.002	I.0117
gr2att 0006*	Piraeus ΑΜΠ 3582	Atheniensis tertia Monumenta nᵒ07		Ath.003	I.0120
cy1kit 0002*	desideratur	Citiensis prima Monumenta nᵒ08		Cit.001	I.0011
cy1kit 0037*	Oxford Ashmolean 1974.325	Citiensis secunda (seu Oxoniensis), Monumenta nᵒ09		Cit.002	I.0046
cy1kit 0048*	desideratur	Citiensis tertia Monumenta nᵒ10		Cit.003	I.0057
cy1kit 0055*	desideratur	Citiensis quarta Monumenta nᵒ11		Cit.004	I.0064
cy1kit 0064*	desideratur	Citiensis quinta Monumenta nᵒ12		Cit.005	I.0073
cy1kit 0073*	desideratur	Citiensis sexta Monumenta nᵒ13		Cit.006	I.0082
cy1kit 0065*	desideratur	Citiensis septima Monumenta nᵒ14		Cit.007	I.0074
cy1kit 0051*	desideratur	Citiensis octava Monumenta nᵒ15		Cit.008	I.0060
	illegible	Citiensis nona Monumenta nᵒ16
cy1kit 0072*	desideratur	Citiensis decima Monumenta nᵒ17		Cit.009	I.0081
cy1kit 0070*	desideratur	Citiensis undecima Monumenta nᵒ18		Cit.010	I.0079
cy1kit 0059*	desideratur	Citiensis duodecima Monumenta nᵒ19		Cit.011	I.0068
cy1kit 0071*	desideratur	Citiensis tertia decima Monumenta nᵒ20		Cit.012	I.0080
cy1kit 0069*	desideratur	Citiensis quarta decima Monumenta nᵒ21		Cit.013	I.0078
cy1kit 0058*	desideratur	Citiensis quinta decima Monumenta nᵒ22		Cit.014	I.0067
cy1kit 0067*	desideratur	Citiensis sexta decima Monumenta nᵒ23		Cit.015	I.0076
cy1kit 0061*	desideratur	Citiensis septima decima Monumenta nᵒ24		Cit.016	I.0070
cy1kit 0057*	desideratur	Citiensis duodevicesima Monumenta nᵒ25		Cit.017	I.0066
	illegible	Citiensis undevicesima Monumenta nᵒ26
cy1kit 0050*	desideratur	Citiensis vicesima Monumenta nᵒ27		Cit.018	I.0059
cy1kit 0062*	desideratur	Citiensis vicesima prima Monumenta nᵒ28		Cit.019	I.0071
cy1kit 0053*	desideratur	Citiensis vicesima secunda Monumenta nᵒ29		Cit.020	I.0062
cy1kit 0049*	desideratur	Citiensis vicesima tertia Monumenta nᵒ30		Cit.021	I.0058
cy1kit 0056*	desideratur	Citiensis quarta et vicesima Monumenta nᵒ31		Cit.022	I.0065
cy1kit 0068*	desideratur	Citiensis vicesima quinta Monumenta nᵒ32		Cit.023	I.0077
cy1kit 0060*	desideratur	Citiensis vicesima sexta Monumenta nᵒ33		Cit.024	I.0069
cy1kit 0074*	desideratur	Citiensis vicesima septima Monumenta nᵒ34		Cit.025	I.0083
cy1kit 0076*	desideratur	Citiensis vicesima octava Monumenta nᵒ35		Cit.026	I.0085
cy1kit 0052*	desideratur	Citiensis undetricesima Monumenta nᵒ36		Cit.027	I.0061
cy1kit 0063*	desideratur	Citiensis tricesima Monumenta nᵒ37		Cit.028	I.0072
cy1kit 0006*	desideratur	Citiensis tricesima prima Monumenta nᵒ38		Cit.029	I.0075
cy1kit 0075*	desideratur	Citiensis tricesima secunda Monumenta nᵒ39		Cit.030	I.0084
cy1kit 0054*	desideratur	Citiensis tricesima tertia Monumenta nᵒ40		Cit.031	I.0063
	desideratur	Gemma Citiensis Monumenta nᵒ40ᵇⁱˢ
it2nor 0001*	Cagliari, Museo archeologico nazionale (w/o inv.)	Norensis prima Monumenta nᵒ41	Nor.001	Sard.002	I.0144
it3ery 0001*	desideratur	Erycina Monumenta nᵒ42		Eryc.	I.0135
it3pal 0001*	desideratur	Vas panormitanum Monumenta nᵒ43		Vas pan.	I.0133
it3mar 0001*	Mozia, Museo Whittaker?	Marsalensis Monumenta nᵒ44		Mars.	I.0137
it2ign 0001*	desideratur	Gemma Sardica Monumenta nᵒ45			IFPCO Sard.2

sample tranches :: Gesenius || Hadrumetum || Hoftĳzer