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Cherchell is listed on the Encarta map [1] and travel sites [2]. Cherchel is the 1911 Encyclopedia entry [3]. Petersam 06:54, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I removed this unsourced text from the "Ancient history" section:
I haven't seen evidence anywhere else that Egypt in 1500 BC (the New Kingdom) controlled anything west of Siwa. I've never read of pharaonic Egypt establishing colonies by sea, which I'm sure a settlement at Cherchell would have required. Even in the Ptolemaic era, when the Egyptians were in contact with the whole Mediterranean world, their realm only extended into eastern Libya (around Cyrene). The Britannica and Catholic Encyclopedia articles linked here say nothing of an Egyptian settlement, only of a Carthaginian one. And even if the Thutmose-era statue was found at Cherchell, it could have been an import, perhaps from the Roman era. Therefore, I am removing the text until it can be cited. A. Parrot ( talk) 03:48, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
This article reads like a school essay: the style is poor, it's full of unsubstantiated claims, it's long and repetitious, it expresses surprise that a city founded as a colonia (i.e. a settlement of Roman soldiers) should be "Romanised", and that cities in the Roman world should be loyal to "Rome"... It needs a lot of attention. Deipnosophista ( talk) 08:36, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
This old reference also mentions it under the name "Julia Caesarea"; if that's accurate, it should be mentioned with a newer, better source. — LlywelynII 00:25, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
Ok, I found the Wiktionary entry for the Punic word for "island". There's no "I" in the middle of it. It's also unclear what the "I" would be other than the same letter as "Y".
There doesn't seem to be any online source for the Punic word for "sand". ḤOL seems to be borrowed from Hebrew. How sure is Lipinski that that was the name? or was it just a conjecture based on Hebrew presumably being very close to what the Punic would've been? (Based on the Hebrew forms, "ḤOL" is really either "ḤL" or "ḤWL". No one seems to have either 𐤀𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤋 or 𐤀𐤉𐤇𐤋 encoded on the internet yet, though. Maybe it's hidden in a pdf somewhere?
Sorry not to be able to check this myself, but Google Books absolutely refuses to show or allow a search of the text on Lipinski's p. 405. — LlywelynII 23:37, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
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Cherchell is listed on the Encarta map [1] and travel sites [2]. Cherchel is the 1911 Encyclopedia entry [3]. Petersam 06:54, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I removed this unsourced text from the "Ancient history" section:
I haven't seen evidence anywhere else that Egypt in 1500 BC (the New Kingdom) controlled anything west of Siwa. I've never read of pharaonic Egypt establishing colonies by sea, which I'm sure a settlement at Cherchell would have required. Even in the Ptolemaic era, when the Egyptians were in contact with the whole Mediterranean world, their realm only extended into eastern Libya (around Cyrene). The Britannica and Catholic Encyclopedia articles linked here say nothing of an Egyptian settlement, only of a Carthaginian one. And even if the Thutmose-era statue was found at Cherchell, it could have been an import, perhaps from the Roman era. Therefore, I am removing the text until it can be cited. A. Parrot ( talk) 03:48, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
This article reads like a school essay: the style is poor, it's full of unsubstantiated claims, it's long and repetitious, it expresses surprise that a city founded as a colonia (i.e. a settlement of Roman soldiers) should be "Romanised", and that cities in the Roman world should be loyal to "Rome"... It needs a lot of attention. Deipnosophista ( talk) 08:36, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
This old reference also mentions it under the name "Julia Caesarea"; if that's accurate, it should be mentioned with a newer, better source. — LlywelynII 00:25, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
Ok, I found the Wiktionary entry for the Punic word for "island". There's no "I" in the middle of it. It's also unclear what the "I" would be other than the same letter as "Y".
There doesn't seem to be any online source for the Punic word for "sand". ḤOL seems to be borrowed from Hebrew. How sure is Lipinski that that was the name? or was it just a conjecture based on Hebrew presumably being very close to what the Punic would've been? (Based on the Hebrew forms, "ḤOL" is really either "ḤL" or "ḤWL". No one seems to have either 𐤀𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤋 or 𐤀𐤉𐤇𐤋 encoded on the internet yet, though. Maybe it's hidden in a pdf somewhere?
Sorry not to be able to check this myself, but Google Books absolutely refuses to show or allow a search of the text on Lipinski's p. 405. — LlywelynII 23:37, 12 February 2024 (UTC)