Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France). Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum ab Academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum Humanorium conditum atgue digestum. Atlas. Parisiis E Reipublicae Typographeo, 1881. http://archive.org/details/corpusinscriptio11acad.
CIS I 0111
Metadata
- Language
- Phoenician / Punic
- Script
- Phoenician
- Find Type
- Excavation
- Material
- Stone | Sandstone
- Updated by
- James D. Moore, 2026-06-28
General Notes
This Phoenician graffito is dated to the sixth century BCE. CIS 111-113 (see also DEAPS numbers 16910 and 16912) are carved into the leg of the broken colossal statue at the Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel, located south of Aswan. This temple was built to the sun gods Amen-Re and Re-Horakhte (Wheaton).
Benz, Frank L. Personal Names in the Phoenician and Punic Inscriptions : A Catalog, Grammatical Study and Glossary of Elements. Rome : Biblical Institute Press, 1972. http://archive.org/details/personalnamesinp0000benz.
Holmstedt, Robert D., Aaron Schade, and Philip C. Schmitz. Phoenician Inscriptions. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2026.
Ephemeris für semitische Epigraphik. Giessen : J. Ricker, 1900. http://archive.org/details/32882013556066-ephemerisfursem.
Schmitz, Philip C., and Joann Freed. The Phoenician Diaspora: Epigraphic and Historical Studies. Penn State University Press, 2012. https://doi.org/10.5325/j.ctv1bxh01s.
Textual Notes
"Line 1 - The name עבדפתח is a theophoric name with Ptaḥ meaning “servant of Ptaḥ.” אחמס is probably the name Aḥmose. This name first appeared with Aḥmose, a king during the eighteenth dynasty, and then appears throughout the centuries as names of people. The Egyptian spelling of this name is ˁḥ-ms. The name פתחי also comes from the god Ptaḥ (see Benz 1972, 396-397).
The word כאית is the particle כי prefixed to the particle of existence אית (“there is, are”). ב is the abbreviation of the word בנ (“son of”)." (Wheaton).
Text and Translation
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Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum Last updated 29 April, 2026 by James D. Moore
Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum Last updated 29 April, 2026 by James D. Moore
Huc venit Abdphtah, filius Iagoreśmuni … Amasis.
Phtah[œus, et Abd]as.
Moore, James D., Armand Rogers. 'CIS I 0111.' DEAPS. 28 Apr, 2026. https://deaps.osu.edu/text_objects/16911. Accessed: 01 Jul, 2026.