Marseille Tariff
The Marseille Tariff is a Punic language inscription from the third century BCE, found on two fragments of a stone in 1844/45 at Marseille in Southern France. It is thought to have originally come from the temple of Baal-Saphon in Carthage. It is one of the earliest published inscriptions written in the Phoenician alphabet, and one of the longest ever found.
| Marseille Tariff | |
|---|---|
_(cropped).jpg.webp) As shown in the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum | |
| Writing | Punic |
| Discovered | 1844 |
It was first published by Jean-Joseph-Léandre Bargès, and is known as KAI 69 and CIS I 165.[1]
The inscription
The tariff regulated the payments to the priests for performing sacrifices and described the nature of the victims.[2] All victims are male animals, and females are not mentioned.
Bibliography
- Van den Branden, A. (1965). LÃVITIQUE 1-7 ET LE TARIF DE MARSEILLE, CIS I. 165. Rivista Degli Studi Orientali, 40(2), 107-130. Retrieved August 21, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/41879572
- Jean-Joseph-Léandre Bargès (1868), Inscription phénicienne de Marseille: nouvelles observations, historique de la découverte et description exacte de la pierre, le tout accompagné de pièces justificatives et d'une planche lithographique
- Jean-Joseph-Léandre Bargès (1847), Temple de Baal à Marseille ou grande inscription phénicienne découverte dans cette ville dans le courant de l'année 1845, expliquée et accompagnée d'observations critiques et historiques
References
- Jean-Joseph-Léandre Bargès (1847), Temple de Baal à Marseille ou grande inscription phénicienne découverte dans cette ville dans le courant de l'année 1845, expliquée et accompagnée d'observations critiques et historiques
- Perdue, Leo (2001). The Blackwell Companion to the Hebrew Bible. Wiley-Blackwell, p. 157. ISBN 0-631-21071-7
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