The Tharros Punic inscriptions are a group of Punic inscriptions found at the archeological site of Tharros in Sardinia. [1]
In the nineteenth century, a few funerary inscriptions engraved on cippi were discovered (CIS I 154-161). [2] In 1901 an important 3rd century BC inscription dedicated to Melqart was found, but the surface was very damaged, currently the longest Punic inscription outside of North Africa. [1] [3] [4]
Many short texts are engraved on small objects: a hemisphere in dolomitic stone, [5] an amulet, [6] and two silver plates. [1] [7] [8]
Neopunic graffiti on ceramic fragments has also been found. [1] [9]
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Image | Current location | Discovered | ICO Sard | CIS | Other |
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lost | 1850 | 6 | 160 | |
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Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari | 1852 | 5 | 153 | |
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1855 | 7 | 159 | [10] | |
lost | 1855 | 8 | |||
lost | 1861 | 10 | |||
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Como, Museo archeologico Paolo Giovio | 1863 | 12 | 154 | KI 61 |
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Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari | 1863 | 13 | 156 | |
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1863 | 14 | 155 | ||
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1865 | 16 | 157 | ||
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Sassari, Museo nazionale archeologico ed etnografico G. A. Sanna | 1870 | 24 | 158 | KI 62, KAI 67 |
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari | 1873 | 15 | RES 1591 | ||
lost | 1875 | 21 | 161 | ||
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari | 1900 | 31 | RES 21 | ||
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1901 | 32 | [11] [3] |
Altogether, the known Phoenician texts number nearly seven thousand. The majority of these were collected in three volumes constituting the first part of the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum (CIS), begun in 1867 under the editorial direction of the famous French scholar Ernest Renan (1823–1892), continued by J.-B. Chabot and concluded in 1962 by James G. Février. The CIS corpus includes 176 "Phoenician" inscriptions and 5982 "Punic" inscriptions (see below on these labels).[ self-published source?]