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Carthage Tariff

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Carthage Tariff
As shown in Cooke's Text-book of North-Semitic Inscriptions
MaterialLimestone
Createdc. 300 BC
Discovered1856-58
Tunis, Tunisia
Present locationBritish Museum, London
IdentificationBM 125303
LanguagePunic

The Carthage Tariff is a Punic language inscription from the third century BCE, found on a fragments of a limestone stela in 1856-58 at Carthage in Tunisia. It is thought to be related to the Marseille Tariff, found two decades earlier.[1]

It was first published by Nathan Davis, and the 11-line inscription is known as KAI 74 and CIS I 167.

Of all the inscriptions found by Davis, it was one of just three that was not a traditional Carthaginian tombstone - the other two being number 71 (the Son of Baalshillek marble base) and number 73 (the Carthage tower model).[2]

The plaque lists the payments for ritual sacrifices, including which portions go to the priests and which to the offerer. It is thought to have been placed on a temple wall, setting out the rules for those giving offerings.

It is held in the archives of the British Museum, as BM 125303.[3]

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  1. ^ George Albert Cooke, 1903: Text-book of North-Semitic Inscriptions: Moabite, Hebrew, Phoenician, Aramaic, Nabataean, Palmyrene, Jewish
  2. ^ Nathan Davis, 1863, Inscriptions in the Phœnician character, now deposited in the British Museum, discovered on the site of Carthage, during researches made by Nathan Davis, esq; at the expense of Her Majesty's government, in the years 1856, 1857, and 1858, page 3
  3. ^ "Plaque | British Museum".