''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
Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (3 February 178623 October 1842) was a German orientalist, lexicographer, Christian Hebraist, Lutheran theologian, Biblical scholar and critic.
Biography
Gesenius was born at Nordhausen. In 1803 he became a ...
. 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*Full Title: The writing and language of all the surviving Phoenician remains, published and unpublished copies of the best examples, illustrated and explained by Wilhelm Gesenius.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
. i–xxviii, 1–260 therein:
**First book: containing Phoenician palaeography
. 1–89**Second book: illustrating the Phoenician inscriptions
. 90–260*Second part: Containing two later books on the gods and the language of the Phoenicians
. 261–482 therein:
**Third book: On the Phoenician gods
. 261–328**Fourth book: Illustrating the Phoenician language
. 329–482*Third part: containing forty-six inscribed stone tablets
ab. 1–48 (sic)
List of inscriptions
Editions
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References
Bibliography
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* {{cite book, ref=none, last=Hamaker, first=Hendrik Arent, author-link=Hendrik Arent Hamaker, title=Miscellanea Phoenicia, sive Commentarii de rebus Phoenicum, quibus inscriptiones multae lapidum ac nummorum, nominaque propria hominum et locorum explicantur, item Punicae gentis lingua et religiones passim illustrantur, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Zj2iM3g6o8C, year=1828, publisher=S. et J. Luchtmans
* CIS:
Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum
The ("Corpus of Semitic Inscriptions", abbreviated CIS) is a collection of ancient inscriptions in Semitic languages produced since the end of 2nd millennium BC until the rise of Islam. It was published in Latin. In a note recovered after his d ...
* KAI:
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 ...
Phoenician-Punic studies
1837 non-fiction books
Phoenician language