Mnamon

Ancient writing systems in the Mediterranean

A critical guide to electronic resources

Libyco-Berber

- 2nd (9th?) century BC-7th century AD



Map of places



  1. Bardo National Museum, Tunis (Place held), 'Numidian stela currently at the Bardo National Museum, Tunis, Tunisia.' (image)
  2. British Museum, London (Place held), 'Bilingual inscription (RIL 1, Pl. 1.1; KAI 100) from a mausoleum at Dougga/Tbgg (Tunisia) that was the first Libyco-Berber inscription to come to the attention of Western scholars, in 1631. ' (image)
  3. British Museum, London (Place held), 'RIL 1, Pl. 1.1' (Example)
  4. Classical Mauretania (modern NW Africa) (Place of origin)
  5. Dougga (Provenance), 'Bilingual inscription (RIL 1, Pl. 1.1; KAI 100) from a mausoleum at Dougga/Tbgg (Tunisia) that was the first Libyco-Berber inscription to come to the attention of Western scholars, in 1631. ' (image)
  6. Dougga (Provenance), 'Mausoleum of Ateban at Dougga (Tunisia), on which was found the first Libyco-Berber inscription to be examined by Western researchers (photo by Patrick Giraud, Wikipedia)' (image)
  7. Dougga (Provenance), 'RIL 1, Pl. 1.1' (Example)
  8. Kef Beni Feredj (Provenance), 'RIL 151, Pl. V.2' (Example)
  9. Kef Beni Feredj (Provenance), 'The inscription RIL 151, Pl. V.2 = CIL 5220 / 17395 is a Latin-Libyco-Berber bilingual discovered at Kef Beni Feredj in the Cheffia valley in northeastern Algeria near the Tunisian border. ' (image)
  10. Kef Messalene (Provenance), 'The Libyco-Berber necropolis of Kef Messalene (NE Algeria), RIL pl. IV.2' (image)
  11. Numidia (Place of origin)
  12. Ouled Fayet (Provenance), 'Monolingual funerary inscription, discovered on the capstone of a dolmen in Ouled Fayet and written in the poorly deciphered "western" or "Masaesylian" Libyco-Berber script.' (image)
  13. Ouled Fayet (Provenance), 'RIL 858' (Example)