Scripturae Linguaeque Phoeniciae Explained

Scripturae Linguaeque Phoeniciae
Author:	Wilhelm Gesenius
Country:	Leipzig
Language:	Latin
Genre:	Phoenician language
Release Date:	1837

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• Full Title: The writing and language of all the surviving Phoenician remains, published and unpublished copies of the best examples, illustrated and explained by Wilhelm Gesenius.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^[1]	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

• Book: Gesenius, F.H.W. . 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 . sumptibus typisque Fr. Chr. Guil. Vogelii . 1 . 1837 . la . none.
  • Book: Scripturae linguaeque phoeniciae . 2 . 1837 . la . none.
  • Book: Scripturae linguaeque phoeniciae . 3 . 1837 . la . none.

Bibliography

• Book: Review of Wilhelm Gesenius's publications. Foreign Quarterly Review . L. Scott . 1838.
• Lehmann . Reinhard G. .

  de:Reinhard G. Lehmann

  . 2013 . Wilhelm Gesenius and the Rise of Phoenician Philology . dead . Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft . Berlin / Boston . De Gruyter . 427. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304003914/http://www.hebraistik.uni-mainz.de/Dateien/Lehmann_Gesenius-Phoenix_2013.pdf . 2016-03-04.
• Book: Hamaker, Hendrik Arent. none. Hendrik Arent Hamaker. 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. 1828. S. et J. Luchtmans.
• CIS: Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum
• KAI: Kanaanäische und Aramäische Inschriften

Notes and References

1. Book: Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England) . Proceedings . 1878 . London . Getty Research Institute . 34.