This monograph is a systematic paleographical analysis that traces the typographical development of the Phoenician and Punic scripts from the eighth to the first century B.C. (Neopunic scripts are also discussed but mainly as a lower limit to the development of Punic.) From his intensive examination of the complicated historical data, the author is able to fix absolute dates for several major sequences of inscriptions (from Cyprus, Byblos, Tyre, and Sidon) and then establish a general typographical framework for undated inscriptions, including the corpus of Punic texts. Seventeen plates are provided for comparison with the descriptive material.