In 2009 a parallelepiped sandstone cippus with a Punic inscription was recovered from the southern necropolis of Tharros. The cippus, which belongs to a type not previously documented in Tharros, was found reused in a context of the Roman period. The five-line inscription mentions the deceased (with his genealogy) who is defined as a shofet, a political office already attested in Tharros. The publication of the cippus is accompanied by a review of the relevant archaeological and epigraphic data currently known to us from Tharros, with particular reference to nineteenth-century literature.

Si presenta un cippo funerario punico iscritto rinvenuto fortuitamente nella necropoli meridionale di Tharros. L'iscrizione riporta il nome del defunto, la sua genealogia e la carica pubblica rivestita, quella di sufeta. Si tratta della più antica menzione della stessa a Tharros in quanto l'epigrafe si data tra V e IV sec. a.C.