Albertini Tablets
The Albertini Tablets () are a set of 33 (or 34) legal documents in Latin cursive written in ink on 45 cedarwood tablets from the years 493–496. They were discovered in 1928 in a cache on the estate of Jabal Mrata near the Algeria–Tunisia border, just south of ancient Theveste and beyond the southern frontier of the Vandal Kingdom. They are all dated by the regnal years of the Vandal king Gunthamund. They are named for Eugène Albertini, who edited the first transcription. The tablets are presently conserved at the National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art in Algiers, Algeria.

The place where the documents were found is Saharan pre-desert at the limit of the cultivable zone and of permanent human settlement. The tablets show that in the Vandal period arboriculture (including of olive) and floodwater irrigation were practised in the area. Besides agriculture, the tablets reveal the legal, social and economic practices in and on the fringes of the Vandal Kingdom. They also provide useful information about Late Latin grammar and phonetics.
Q1285080
Latin cursive
Concept
Q5056949
cedarwood
Concept
Q262
Algeria
LOC
Q948
Tunisia
LOC
Q12220954
Theveste
LOC
Q10416611
Vandal Kingdom
LOC
Q17150160
regnal year
UNK
Q312604
Gunthamund
PER
Q3059682
Eugène Albertini
PER
Q3330723
National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art
LOC
Q6583
Sahara
LOC
Q127213
arboriculture
Concept
Q37083
olive
Concept
Q7574004
floodwater irrigation
UNK
Q1503113
Late Latin
Concept
Q85740575
Albertini Tablets
UNK
1928-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1928
DATE
+33^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
33
NUMBER
+34^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
34
NUMBER
+45^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
45
NUMBER
+496^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
496
NUMBER
diplomatic relation
country