Phoenician Punic Sicily Research Papers (original) (raw)

l'aide du Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche scientifique. 1-4; Fantar, Antas, Les inscriptions p. 58 ff.; Acquaro RIN 1974, 77-8r. 2 CIS 264. 'M is also used more generally for «people of the land» ('M 'RS)) in the rather older Yehawmilk inscription from Byblus, Cooke Textbook no. 3 (V-IV century B.C.). 3 Acquaro RIN 76, 1974, Note di epagrafia punica I pp. 77-82. For B'L citizen(s) cf. CIS r20 (a citizeness of Byzantium); Cooke Textbook no. 10 (citizens of Hammon), no. 54 (a citizen of Maktar); also RES 163-164, 505, 679, 942. -Moscati, Riv. Studi Orientali 43, 1968, p. 2, points out the distinction between an élite (viz. a senate) and people clearly shown in inscriptions from Lepcis (Levi della Vida, Rend. Lincei r955, 550-561). 4 However the term often read as B'L on coins of Gades, Sexsi, Lixus, Tingis, is interpreted by Sola Sole as P'L («obra, obra acunada» thus mint or coinage), cf. Sefarad XXVII^67, 16 ff. and Numisma VIII 35,1958, r7. 5 Acquaro RIN r974 p. 80 note 20 notes as a parallel a resolution by the army in an African inscription (Février, Cahiers de Byrsa 6, 1956, 22. 25). * Bisi, Annali 16-17, 1969-1970, 95 note 96, citing the derivation of the word, which incidentally was not given by Müller. 7 Bisi op. cit. 93 says «mhsbmmagistrati incaricati della paga alle truppe simili ai quaestores romani » ; but it is difficult to see why they have to be military.