The Phoenician Graffito in the Holt Collection of the National Museum of Wales
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11760192 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alfred Guillaume (0000-0003-1350-6281, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1940 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Pages | 67-67 |
| Publication date | 1940-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Iraq (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-0889 • E-ISSN: 2053-4744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4241664 |
| OpenAlex | W2072849894 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
On the morning of April 27th last I was delighted and astonished to discover in the National Museum of Wales at Cardiff a tile inscribed in Neo-Punic letters. I published a summary account of the graffito in The Illustrated London News on August 12th, 1939. Here I should like to say a little more about the inscription, not so much to amplify the short account in The Illustrated London News as to leave a permanent record in an archaeological journal of a discovery which is unique in the annals of British archaeology.Arabia has given Britain one inscription: as long ago as 1878, a fine Roman altar, inscribed in Latin and Palmyrene characters, was discovered in the Roman camp near South Shields, and is now to be seen in the Free Library at that place. But this is the first time that an inscription from the hand of a descendant of the old Phoenician branch of the Semitic race has been found in Britain (or rather, recognized as such, for the tile was found during the excavation of Holt in the years 1907–15)
Afghan · Altar · Ancient history · Annals · Arabic · Archaeology · Art · Descendant · Fortress (chess · Inscribed figure · Phoenician · Semitic languages · Windsor · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · History
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2000 - 2020 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |