Carthaginian slaughterhouse inscription


The Carthaginian slaughterhouse inscription is a notable Punic inscription from Carthage published in 1871, currently held in the British Museum (ID number BM 125263. One of 10 inscriptions collected by Anglican clergyman William Fenner, based in La Goulette, Tunis, and given to Julius Euting for publication. Euting had numbered it Carthage 195, having numbered his collection beginning at 120, picking up after the numbering published two years previously in 1869 by Paul Schröder in his Die Phönizische Sprache. It is known as CIS I 175, NSI 46, KAI 80 and KI 68.