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The Maktar and Mididi inscriptions are a number of
Punic language The Punic language, also called Phoenicio-Punic or Carthaginian, is an extinct variety of the Phoenician language, a Canaanite language of the Northwest Semitic branch of the Semitic languages. An offshoot of the Phoenician language of coastal ...
inscriptions, found in the 1890s at
Maktar Maktar or Makthar ( ar, مكثر), also known by other names during antiquity, is a town and archaeological site in Siliana Governorate, Tunisia. Maktar was founded by the Berber Numidians as a defense post against Carthaginian expansion. At the ...
and
Mididi Mididi ( xpu, 𐤌𐤃𐤃𐤌, , or , ) was a Carthaginian and Roman settlement during antiquity, located at what is now Henchir-Medded, Tunisia. 14 neo-punic inscriptions, known as the Mididi inscriptions, were found in Mididi by René Basset ...
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. A number of the most notable inscriptions have been collected in ''
Kanaanäische und Aramäische Inschriften Kanaanäische und Aramäische Inschriften (in English, Canaanite and Aramaic Inscriptions), or KAI, is the standard source for the original text of Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions not contained in the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. It was fir ...
'', and are known as are known as KAI 145-158. More than 150 such inscriptions were known by the end of the 19th century.


Temple of Hathor Miskar

A number of inscriptions were found in 1892 during excavation of the Temple of Hathor Miskar. They were first published by in 1901, and are known as KAI 145-147.


Ain Bab

In 1901 Paul Gauckler sent to the
Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques The Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (CTHS) (''Committee for Historic and Scientific Works'') is a French research institution created by the Minister of Public Education François Guizot on 18 July 1834 for the purpose of 'leading ...
stampings of 6 monuments found in
Maktar Maktar or Makthar ( ar, مكثر), also known by other names during antiquity, is a town and archaeological site in Siliana Governorate, Tunisia. Maktar was founded by the Berber Numidians as a defense post against Carthaginian expansion. At the ...
, from the Punico-Roman cemetery next to the Aïn-el-Bab gate. These are known as KAI 148-153 and RES 161-166.


Mididi

In 1901,
René Basset René Basset (24July 18554January 1924) was a French orientalist, specialist of the Berber language and the Arabic language. Biography René Basset was the first director of the "École des lettres d'Alger" created in 1879 during the Frenc ...
sent to the
Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques The Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (CTHS) (''Committee for Historic and Scientific Works'') is a French research institution created by the Minister of Public Education François Guizot on 18 July 1834 for the purpose of 'leading ...
stampings of 18 monuments and inscriptions found in the excavation of
Mididi Mididi ( xpu, 𐤌𐤃𐤃𐤌, , or , ) was a Carthaginian and Roman settlement during antiquity, located at what is now Henchir-Medded, Tunisia. 14 neo-punic inscriptions, known as the Mididi inscriptions, were found in Mididi by René Basset ...
, of which 14 were neo-punic funerary inscriptions.Bulletin archéologique du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques
1901: p.327: "M. le général Basset, de son côté, a fait parvenir à la Commission une série de 18 estampages de monuments ou d'inscriptions néo-puniques relevés par M. le lieutenant Rouget des brigades topographiques, à Henchir-Meded; un de ces monuments (no 10) porte des caractères qui me paraissent ne pas être puniques; trois (no 16-18) sont anépigraphes; les autres sont des inscriptions funéraires de basse époque. M. le lieutenant Rouget a fait ces estampages avec un soin extrême, qui en facilite beaucoup le déchiffrement. En dehors des particularités dans les formules ou dans l'orthographe que l'on trouvera relevées plus bas, il faut signaler l'intérêt des représentations figurées, qui par certains traits rappellent celles que l'on trouve sur les stèles de Maktar. La chose est d'autant plus naturelle que Mididi était éloignée de quelques milles à peine de Maktar et que j'ai moi-même retrouvé sur l'une des stèles de Maktar un personnage qui porte l'ethnique de Mediti, c'est-à-dire habitant de Mididi." These are known as KAI 154-158 and RES 167-180.


Bibliography

Temple of Hathor Miskar inscriptions
Text-book of North-Semitic Inscriptions
Maktar, 59 A,B,C; p.150-157 Ain Bab and Mididi
RES

Les inscriptions de Maktar
24 janvier 1890, Philippe Berger, Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres Année 1890 34-1 pp. 35-42
Bulletin archéologique du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques


References

{{reflist Archaeological artifacts KAI inscriptions Punic inscriptions