Neo-Punic inscriptions

Neo-Punic Inscriptions.

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I find neo-punic inscriptions very hard to read, in any case much more difficult as the Phoenician or Punic inscriptions. Even scholars disagree sometimes about what the signs stands for. An example from Guelma (Algeria):

Inscription N 8 (notation Jongeling).

Chabot reads:

‘ b n  z  ṭ n ’

l h / ḥ y Ṣ p / k ḥ r

d n š d’ b r s y m

r ‘ w

Judas reads:

‘ b n  z  ṭ n ’

l h / ḥ y Ṣ p / k [Ṣ]

d n  š  d’ b r  b n  y m

r ‘ w

Translation :

This stone was erected

for the freed

man of d ‘ b r son of  y m

r ‘ w

I understood our Arabic writing members can understand it much better.

Maybe they can look at it.

Based on Names in Neo-Punic Inscriptions, K.Jongeling, Groningen 1984.