Kanaanäische und Aramäische Inschriften


Kanaanäische und Aramäische Inschriften, or KAI, is the standard source for the original text of Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions not contained in the Tanakh or Old Testament. It was first published from 1960 to 1964 in three volumes by the German Orientalists :de:Herbert Donner|Herbert Donner and :de:Wolfgang Röllig|Wolfgang Röllig, and has been updated in numerous subsequent editions
The work attempted to "integrate philology, palaeography and cultural history" in the commented re-editing of a selection of Canaanite and Aramaic Inscriptions, using the "pertinent source material for the Phoenician, Punic, Moabite, pre-exile-Hebrew and Ancient Aramaic cultures". Röllig and Donner had the support of William F. Albright in Baltimore, James Germain Février in Paris and Giorgio Levi Della Vida in Rome during the compilation of the first edition.

Phoenician inscriptions

A.I: From "the Motherland" (KAI 1-22, 280-286)

Byblos
Sidon
Tyre
Umm al-Amad
Masub
Tel Miqne
Sam'al
Karatepe
Çebel Ires Daǧı
Cyprus
Rhodes
Sardinia
Malta
Crete
Kos

B.I: From the islands (KAI 61-68, 295-301)

B.II. From mainland Europe (KAI 69-72)

B.III. From Africa (KAI 73-116, 302-305)

Neopunic inscriptions

C.I: From Africa (KAI 117-171)

D. Moabite and Ammonite inscriptions (KAI 181, 306, 307-308)

F.I: From Syria, Palestine and the Arabian Desert (KAI 201-230, 309-317)

Bureij
Tell Afis
Sam'al
As-Safira
Al-Nayrab
Tell Fekheriye
Tel Dan
Deir Alla

F.III: From Asia Minor (KAI 258-265, 278, 318-319)

F.IV: From Egypt (KAI 266-272)

F.V: From the outlying areas (KAI 273-276, 279, 320)

Appendix I. Phoenician and Punic inscriptions in Greek script (KAI 174-177)

Appendix II. Latin-Libyan inscriptions (KAI 178-180)