Dougga Libyco-Punic Bilingual Inscription

commissioned by the people of Thugga for the Numidian prince Ateban · c. 140s BC (British Museum dates the monument to about 146 BC) · Dougga (ancient Thugga) (Tunisia) · other

A Numidian mausoleum records the same dedication twice, once in Punic and once in Numidian, and it is that doubling alone that let modern scholars break into the otherwise unreadable Libyco-Berber script and its descendant, modern Tifinagh.