Scripturae Linguaeque Phoeniciae
# Scripturae Linguaeque Phoeniciae

Scripturae Linguaeque Phoeniciae (in English: "The writing and language of Phoenicia"), also known as Phoeniciae Monumenta (in English: "Phoenician remains") was an important study of the Phoenician language by German scholar Wilhelm Gesenius. It was written in three volumes, combined in later editions. It was described by Reinhard Lehmann as "a historical milestone of Phoenician epigraphy".

It published all c.80 inscriptions and c.60 coins known in the entire Phoenicio-Punic corpus at the time.

## Contents

* Full Title: The writing and language of all the surviving Phoenician remains, published and unpublished copies of the best examples, illustrated and explained by Wilhelm Gesenius.
* First part: Containing the first two books on Phoenician letters and inscriptions [p. i–xxviii, 1–260], therein:
   * First book: containing Phoenician palaeography [p. 1–89]
   * Second book: illustrating the Phoenician inscriptions [p. 90–260]
* Second part: Containing two later books on the gods and the language of the Phoenicians [p. 261–482], therein:
   * Third book: On the Phoenician gods [p. 261–328]
   * Fourth book: Illustrating the Phoenician language [p. 329–482]
* Third part: containing forty-six inscribed stone tablets [Tab. 1–48 (sic)]

## List of inscriptions

| | Gesenius (1837) | Hamaker (1828) | CIS (1880s) | KAI (1960s) | Other |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cippi of Melqart | 1 | | I 122 | 47 | |
| Benhisa inscription | 2 | | I 124 | - | |
| Mdina steles | 3-4 | III 1-2 | I 123 | 61 | |
| Athenian Greek-Phoenician inscriptions | 5-7 | | I 116, 117, 120 | 53, 55 | |
| Pococke Kition inscriptions | 8-40 | IV | I 11, 46, 57-85 | 33, 35 | |
| Nora Stone | 41 | | I 144 | 46 | |
| Carthaginian | 46-55, 81-83 | I 1-3 | | | |
| Punic-Libyan bilinguals | 56 | II 3 | | 100 | |
| Numidia | 57-63, 84 | II 1-2 | | | |
| Tripolitania Punic inscriptions | 64-65 | III 4-5 | | | IPT 9-10 |
| Gems and stamps | 67-70 | | II 79, 81 | | |
| Non-Phoenician: ||||||
| Carpentras Stela | 71 | | II 141 | | |
| Stela Saltiana | 72 | | II 143 | | TAD D22.54 |
| Turin Aramaic Papyrus | 73 | III 3 | II 144 | | |
| Blacas papyri | 74-75 | | II 145 | | TAD C1.2 |
| Pseudo-Phoenician or forgeries: ||||||
| [Other] | 76-80 | | II 54 | | |

## Editions

* Gesenius, F.H.W. (1837). Scripturae linguaeque phoeniciae monumenta quotquot supersunt edita et inedita ad autographorum optimorumque exemplorum fidem edidit additisque de scriptura et lingua Phoenicum commentariis illustravit Guil. Gesenius: Duos priores de litteris et inscriptionibus phoeniciis libros continens. 1 (in Latin). Vol. 1. sumptibus typisque Fr. Chr. Guil. Vogelii.
   * Scripturae linguaeque phoeniciae (in Latin). Vol. 2. 1837.
   * Scripturae linguaeque phoeniciae (in Latin). Vol. 3. 1837.
