Cherchell Neopunic inscriptions

The Cherchell Neopunic inscriptions are two Neopunic inscriptions on marble discovered in 1875 and 1882 in Cherchell in French Algeria. They are currently in the Louvre.

The Micipsa inscription at the Louvre.

Both were acquired by the Louvre from Achille Schmitter, collector of customs in Cherchell, with assistance from Antoine Héron de Villefosse.[1][2]

The second stele mentions Micipsa, son of Masinissa, and is dated to 118 BCE.[3]

Funerary pillar
Cherchell funerary pillar inscription

This inscription was discovered in February 1875 in a field, on the road to Tenès. It first became the property of a baker from Cherchell, who sold it to Achille Schmitter, collector of customs in Cherchell.[4]

It is engraved on a white marble cube, 17cm x 24cm, and consists of six well-preserved "Neopunic" lines, except however for the sixth line which has a gap. The inscription is a dedication by a daughter to her mother.[5][6]

Micipsa inscription

The Micipsa was acquired by the Louvre in 1882 from Schmitter; it is thought to have originated in the Porte de Tenez, where Schmitter reported making other discoveries.[7] The inscription consists of eleven lines of Neopunic, engraved on white marble with red veins of red, measuring 30cm x 22cm.[2]

Bibliography
  • Berger, P. (1889). Inscription néopunique de Cherchell en l'honneur de Micipsa: par Philippe Berger (PDF) (in French). E. Leroux. Retrieved 2021-12-29.

References
  1. Comptes-rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 1875, p. 203 et 259—266.
  2. Berger, Philippe. “INSCRIPTION NÉOPUNIQUE DE CHERCHELL, EN L’HONNEUR DE MICIPSA.” Revue d’Assyriologie et d’archéologie Orientale 2, no. 2 (1888): 35–46. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23275670.
  3. FÉVRIER, J. G. “L’INSCRIPTION FUNÉRAIRE DE MICIPSA.” Revue d’Assyriologie et d’archéologie Orientale, vol. 45, no. 3, Presses Universitaires de France, 1951, pp. 139–50, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23294575.
  4. Derenbourg Joseph. Sur une nouvelle inscription néopunique de Cherchel. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 19ᵉ année, N. 3, 1875. pp. 259-266. DOI : https://doi.org/10.3406/crai.1875.68249
  5. George Albert Cooke, 1903: Text-book of North-Semitic Inscriptions: Moabite, Hebrew, Phoenician, Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene, Jewish, p.147
  6. Euting, Julius, Inschriftliche Mittheilungen, Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft: ZDMG: Vol. 30 (1876). Bd. 30 (1876).
  7. "Stèle". 118.
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