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  After Gesenius in the middle of the 19ᵗʰ century, archaeological campaigns led to new catalogs of inscriptions that built upon his Monumenta. Almost simultaneously, both Schröder (1869) and Euting (PSt 1871, SCI 1883) produced numbered lists of inscriptions by site, the latter with lithographs for every stela. Following his campaign in the Levant (Mission de Phénicie, 1860-1861), Ernst Renan garnered support from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (AIBL) to publish the first tome in the first part of the Corpus Inscripitionum Semiticarum (CIS I.1, 1881-1887). This definitive collection reshuffled the previous common order of inscriptions and incorporated more recent discoveries, albeit with glaring omissions—it lacked many well-known inscriptions from funerary contexts (e.g. Carthaginensis octava), from late Neo-Punic contexts, and from sites outside of Carthage, even from other North African sites (e.g. Cirta/Constantine). Although the AIBL did provide a wider range of inscriptions in the Répertoire d'épigraphie sémitique (RÉS), in anticipation of their eventual inclusion in the Corpus, regrettably many remained excluded upon publication of the third and final tome (CIS I.3, 1925-1962).

  Among the well-known stelae notably absent from the CIS were those from Hadrumetum (mod. Sousse). In the 1860's under the French protectorate, some stelae were discovered during construction of the Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Immaculée-Conception and the first eight were drawn by Euting (PSt 1871), who donated them to his publishers (Yunusov 2018). Others were excavated after WWII (Cintas 1947). Recent studies have produced full lists of the Hadrumetum stelae now in the Louvre, in the Bardo, and in the Musée archéologique de Sousse (e.g. Fantar 1995; Bénichou-Safar 2010, 2016), yet they lack the current status of those eight extracted by Euting and donated to the Department of the Ancient Orient (Древний Восток) in the Hermitage Museum (listed below).

  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 Hermitage ДВ 18744 (KAI 97, tn2sou0007*), a stela w/o inventory number in the Musée archeologique de Sousse (KAI 99, tn2sou0016*), and a stela now lost (Sousse10, tn2sou0018*).
  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