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Cherchell Neopunic inscriptions
The Cherchell Neopunic inscriptions are Neo-Punic stone texts found at Cherchell, Algeria, the Mauretanian capital; the best known, Cherchell I, is a funerary tablet in the Louvre.
Cirta steles
The Cirta steles are Punic and Neo-Punic votive steles from the El Hofra sanctuary at Cirta, Numidia's capital under modern Constantine, Algeria, dedicated to Ba'al Hammon and Tanit.
Gaetuli
The Gaetuli, or Gaetulians, were Berber nomadic peoples south of Numidia and Mauretania in northwest Africa, first entering Roman history in the Jugurthine War of 111-104 BC.
Inscription of Quintus Marcius
The Inscription of Quintus Marcius is a trilingual Latin, Greek, and Punic inscription found near Oudna, Tunisia, recording an altar dedicated by the physician Quintus Marcius Protomacus.
Libyco-Berber script
The Libyco-Berber script, also called the Numidian or Libyan script, is the ancient consonantal alphabet of North Africa, surviving today as the Tuareg Tifinagh alphabet.
Masaesyli
The Masaesyli, also known as Masaesyles, were a Berber tribal kingdom of western Numidia in present-day Algeria, ruled by King Syphax and absorbed into Masinissa's unified Numidia after 203 BC.
Massylii
The Massylii, also Massyli or Maesulians, were a Berber federation of tribes in eastern Numidia, formed in the 4th century BC and ruled by a king.
Mauri
The Mauri (Greek Maurusii) were a Berber people of ancient Mauretania, the North African region named for them, first recorded in the Jugurthine War under King Bocchus.
Musulamii
The Musulamii were a Berber tribal confederation of southern Numidia and parts of Africa Proconsularis, first named in AD 5–6 and best known for Tacfarinas' revolt of AD 17–24.
Nasamones
The Nasamones (Greek Νασαμῶνες) were an ancient Libyan nomadic herding people of the Greater Syrtis coast, described by Herodotus and annihilated by Rome in AD 86.
Numidian cavalry
Numidian cavalry was the light cavalry of the Numidian kingdoms of North Africa in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, mounted on small horses and armed with javelins.
Numidian coinage
Numidian coinage is the money struck by the kings of Numidia in present-day Algeria from the late 3rd to the mid-1st century BC, beginning with Syphax and Masinissa.
Numidian language
The Numidian language, also called Old Libyan or Libyan, is the ancient Berber language of North Africa, known from over 1,500 inscriptions dating from the first millennium BC.
Psylli
The Psylli (Greek Ψύλλοι) were an ancient Libyan people of the Greater Syrtis coast, famed in Greek and Roman tradition for immunity to snake venom.
Punic-Libyan bilingual of Dougga
The Punic-Libyan bilingual of Dougga, also called the Dougga bilingual inscription, is a pair of 3rd–2nd century BC inscriptions from Thugga, Tunisia, carved in both Punic and Libyco-Berber.
Thugga temple inscription of Massinissa
The Thugga temple inscription of Massinissa is a Punic and Libyan bilingual stone temple dedication at Dougga, Tunisia, dated to 139/8 BC and cataloged as KAI 101.