Kanaanäische und Aramäische Inschriften

Kanaanäische und Aramäische Inschriften (in English, Canaanite and Aramaic Inscriptions), or KAI, is the standard source for the original text of Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions not contained in the Tanakh or Old Testament.

It was first published from 1960 to 1964 in three volumes by the German Orientalists Herbert Donner and Wolfgang Röllig, and has been updated in numerous subsequent editions[1]

The work attempted to "integrate philology, palaeography and cultural history" in the commented re-editing of a selection of Canaanite and Aramaic Inscriptions, using the "pertinent source material for the Phoenician, Punic, Moabite, pre-exile-Hebrew and Ancient Aramaic cultures".[2] Röllig and Donner had the support of William F. Albright in Baltimore, James Germain Février in Paris and Giorgio Levi Della Vida in Rome during the compilation of the first edition.[3]

Editions

The 4th edition was published between 1966-69, and a 5th edition was published in 2002. However, the 5th edition only comprised the first volume (showing the texts in modern Hebrew script), expanding the previous edition by around 40 texts. An updated version of the third volume (a brief bibliography of all the texts in Volume 1) was proposed.[4]


Phoenician inscriptions

A.I: From "the Motherland" (KAI 1-22, 280-286)

Byblos

Sidon

Tyre

Umm al-Amad

  • KAI 18: Baalshamin inscription (CIS I 7)

Masub

Tel Miqne

A.II: From Syria and Asia Minor (KAI 23-29, 287)

Sam'al

Karatepe

Çebel Ires Daǧı

  • KAI 287: Çebel Ires Daǧı inscription

A.III: From the islands (KAI 30-47, 288-292)

Cyprus

The Kition Inscriptions, published by Richard Pococke in 1745. In describing Kition, Pococke wrote: "the walls seem to have been very strong, and in the foundations there have been found many stones, with inscriptions on them, in an unintelligible character, which I suppose, is the antient [sic] Phoenician..."[6]

Rhodes

  • KAI 44-45: Rhodes inscriptions

Sardinia

Malta

Crete

  • KAI 291: Tekke Bowl Inscription (Knossos)

Kos

  • KAI 292: Hellenistic Greek-Phoenician bilingual

A.IV: From Egypt (KAI 48-52)
  • KAI 48: Memphis inscription (RES 1)
  • KAI 49: Abydos inscription (CIS I 99-110)
  • KAI 50: Saqqara inscription
  • KAI 51-52 (origin unknown)

A.V: From Greece (KAI 53-60, 293)
  • KAI 53-55: Athens inscriptions (CIS I 115-117)
  • KAI 56-60: Piraeus inscriptions (CIS I 118-120)
  • KAI 293: Demetrias inscription

A.Addition: From mainland Europe (KAI 277, 294)

Punic inscriptions

B.III. From Africa (KAI 73-116, 302-305)

Carthage

  • KAI 74

Neopunic inscriptions

C.I: From Africa (KAI 117-171)

D. Moabite and Ammonite inscriptions (KAI 181, 306, 307-308)

E. Hebrew inscriptions (KAI 182-200)

F. Aramaic inscriptions

F.I: From Syria, Palestine and the Arabian Desert (KAI 201-230, 309-317)

Bureij

Tell Afis

Sam'al

  • KAI 214–215: Panamuwa inscriptions — in a distinctive language now known as Samalian.

As-Safira

Al-Nayrab

  • KAI 225-226: Sin zir Ibni inscription and Si Gabbor stele

Tell Fekheriye

Tel Dan

Deir Alla

F.IV: From Egypt (KAI 266-272)

F.V: From the outlying areas (KAI 273-276, 279, 320)

Appendices

References
  1. Röllig 1995, p.204-205
  2. Röllig 1995, p.204-205
  3. Röllig 1995, p.204-205
  4. Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften [Band I, Harrassowitz]
  5. Inscription phénicienne de Byblos d'époque romaine, René Dussaud, Syria. Archéologie, Art et histoire, volume 6, issue 3, pp. 269-273
  6. Pococke, v. II pg. 213
  7. Honeyman, A. (1939). The Phoenician Inscriptions of the Cyprus Museum. Iraq, 6(2), 104-108. doi:10.2307/4241651

Bibliography
  • Pardee, Dennis (2006). "Kanaanäische und aramäische Inschriften. 5th ed., rev. By Herbert Donner and Wolfgang Röllig. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2002". Journal of Near Eastern Studies. jstor.org. 65 (2): 155–156. doi:10.1086/505010. JSTOR 10.1086/505010.
  • "TM Bibliography". trismegistos.org. Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  • W. Röllig (1995), Phoenician and the Phoenicians in the context of the Ancient Near East, in S. Moscati (ed.), I Fenici ieri oggi domani : ricerche, scoperte, progetti, Roma, p. 203-214

See also
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