Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo (1940–2024)

Epigrapher of Phoenician-Punic; Professor at the Università di Roma «La Sapienza» (until 2007). Author of Le iscrizioni fenicie e puniche delle colonie d'Occident (1967), catalogs of insciptions from Libya and Mozia, and numerous articles on inscriptions from votive precincts.

Piero Bartoloni (1943–  )

Excavator at Mt. Sirai and Sulcis; produced a catalog of stelae from the open-air precinct of Carthage (1976); Director of the Istituto per la Civiltà fenicia e punica (CNR 1997–2002); Professor of archaeology at the Università degli Studi di Sassari (2001–2013).

André Berthier (1907–2000)

Archaeologist and director of the Musée Gustave-Mercier (now Musée national Cirta) from 1932 and Chargé des affaires culturelles in Constantine (1951–1973); editor of excavation report from el-Hofra with R. Charlier (1952–1955).

François Bertrandy (1944–  )

Professor of history at the Université de Savoie; editor of inscriptions from Cirta with M. Scnnyzer (1987).

abbé René Charlier ( –1979)

Catholic abbot and diocesan canon; Hebraist at the seminary of Constantine; editor of inscriptions from el-Hofra with A. Berthier (1952–1955)

Antonia Ciasca (1930–2001)

Professor of Semitic Philology and Punic Anquities (full professor from 1966) at the Università di Roma "La Sapienza"; excavator in campaigns at Pyrgi (1957), in Israel (1959), at Tas Silg (1963–1970); director of precise stratigraphic excavations at the tophet of Mozia (1964-1973).

Pierre Cintas (1908–1974)

Custom official in Algeria (1929–1931) and then Tunisia (1931–1946); excavated the propriété Lacour/Hervé sector at the Precinct of Tinnit and Ba‘l (1944–1947); later served in the Service des Antiquités (1947–1956) and then as director of the French archaeological mission until the end of the protectorate (1956–1961).

Abdelmajid Ennabli (1937–  )

Conservator of the archaeologogical sites and national museum Carthage; driving force behind the UNESCO campaign to save Carthage (1972–1992).

Douglas L. Esse (1950–1992)

Trench supervisor (CT1) during the ASOR Punic Project excavations; assistant professor at the University of Chicago (1987–1992)

James-Germain Février (1895–1976)

Epigrapher and editor of the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum after J.-B. Chabot.

Alexander Mackie Honeyman (1907–1988)

Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages at St Andrews (1936-1967), with key publications from Phoenician Cyprus.

Madeleine Hours-Miédan (1913–2005)

Conservator-in-chief at the Musée du Louvre (from 1970); published a catalog of Phoenician-Punic iconography (1951).

Henry R. Hurst FSA (1947– )

Reader in Archaeology at Cambridge University; excavator of the circular military harbor at Carthage (UNESCO British Mission) and of Roman structures in the precinct of Tinnit and Ba'l (1999).

Serge Lancel (1928–2005)

Professor of history and archaeology at the Université d'Alger (1963–1965), then at the Université de Grenoble (1965–1997); led UNESCO excavations on the Byrsa Hill as director of the Mission archéologique française à Carthage (1973–1978).

Sabatino Moscati (1922–1997)

Professor at the Università di Roma «La Sapienza» (from 1954) and founder of their Istituto di Studi del Vicino Oriente (1958); established an independent academic discipline by founding the Centro di Studio per la Civiltà Fenicia e Punica (1969, now part of ISMA-CNR) and by starting the journals Rivista di Studi Fenici (1973) and Archeo (1985), as well as directing the landmark exhibition I Fenici (1988).

Colette Durand Picard (1913–1999)

Curator of the site of Carthage; wife of G. Charles Picard; produced two key typologies of Phoenician-Punic stelae (1976, 1978).

Gilbert Charles Picard (1913–1998)

Member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (1932–1965); Director of the Service des Antiquitiés until the end of the protectorate (1942–1956); excavator of the precinct of Tinnit and Ba‘l with P. Cintas (1944–1947); edited the catalogue of the Musée Alaoui (1954), now Musée national du Bardo.

Lawrence E. Stager (1943–2017)

Director of the ASOR Punic Project ecavations at Carthage (1975–1979) while at the University of Chicago (1973–1985); transferred materials and records to Cambridge when appointed Harvard University Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel and Director of the Semitic Museum (1985–2012).

Maurice Sznycer (1921–2010)

Epigrapher and editor of inscriptions from Cirta with F. Bertrandy (1987).