Nathan Davis (traveller)

[2] By his late 20s Davis was working for the London Society for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews (LSPCJ).

[4] Davis chose to side with Margoliouth and Alexander M'Caul in his approach to missionary work, rather than with the alternative views of Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna and Stanislaus Hoga.

[5] Davis spent a number of years in Northern Africa, at Tunis, as missionary to the Jews.

[6] In his Voice from North Africa (1844), Davis attacked some British supposed philo-Semites, and that cost him his position with the LSPCJ.

[4] In 1852 Davis, still employed by the Church of Scotland as a missionary to London Jews, edited the Hebrew Christian Magazine.

[10] With the backing of Anthony Panizzi, Davis had received British Foreign Office support for his dig, an unusual arrangement.

[13] The inscription were worked on by William Sandys Wright Vaux with Emanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch, a book Inscriptions in the Phoenician Character (1863) by Vaux offering translation into Latin with transcription into the Hebrew alphabet.