Scripturae Linguaeque Phoeniciae

Scripturae Linguaeque Phoeniciae

Cover of part one (Pars Prima)
Author	Wilhelm Gesenius
Language	Latin
Genre	Phoenician language
Publication date	1837
Publication place	Leipzig

Scripturae Linguaeque Phoeniciae (in English: "The writing and language of Phoenicia"), also known as Phoeniciae Monumenta (in English: "Phoenician remains"), by German scholar Wilhelm Gesenius, was the first comprehensive review of Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, and an important early study of the Phoenician language.

Precededed by his prelimary treatise Paläographische Studien, his full publication was originally intended to be published under the name Marmora Phœnicia et Punica, quotquot supersunt, edidit, et prœtnissâ commentatione de litteris et linguâ Phœnicum et Pœnorum explicuit G. Gesenius (In English: "The Phoenician and Punic surviving inscriptions, published and explained with an excellent commentary on the letters and language of the Phoenicians and the Punics by W. Gesenius").

It was written in three volumes, combined in later editions. It was described by Reinhard Lehmann as "a historical milestone of Phoenician epigraphy".

It published all c.80 inscriptions and c.60 coins known in the entire Phoenicio-Punic corpus at the time, as well as the four then-known Aramaic inscriptions.

Many of the Latin names that Gesenius gave to the inscriptions have remained foundational to the study of Phoenician-Punic. Gesenius listed the inscriptions by geographic findspot and in chronological order of their discovery.