page_title: Carpentras Stela
section_title: Discovery
hierarchical_section_title: Carpentras Stela / Discovery
caption_attribution_description: English: Lettre de Monsieur Rigord - Carpentras Stele
context_page_description: The Carpentras Stela is an inscription on a stela found at Carpentras in southern France in 1704. It is one of the first published inscriptions written in the Phoenician alphabet.
  It is known as KAI 269 and CIS II 141.
context_section_description: It was presented to Benoît de Maillet, the French consul to Egypt, who showed it to Jean-Pierre Rigord on his return to France.
caption: The stele as published in 1704.
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