| Beccut cippus | |
|---|---|
 Lapidary item in the Makthar Museum: the stone known as the Beccut cippus. | |
| Type | Cippus |
| Material | Limestone |
| Discovered | 1953 Carthage archeological site |
| Place | Makthar Museum |
| Culture | Roman Africa |
The Beccut cippus is an archaeological artifact found in 1953 in Makthar (Tunisia). It is preserved in the town's archaeological museum, opened in 1967.
Along with the famous Makthar harvester inscription unearthed in the late 19th century and preserved in the Louvre, the cippus is one of the few epigraphic documents found on this site to have been engraved with a poetic text.
This third century text evokes the memory of a deceased young woman. Despite the clumsiness of the wording, written in a provincial context, it provides information on the social and religious life of the town, and is a valuable insight into the Romanization of this part of Roman Africa and the integration of populations of Numidian origin at the end of the High Roman Empire.