tophet

As Richard Miles tells us, the tophet at Carthage was traced after French archaeologists became suspicious of a local stone dealer who was selling a surprising number of inscribed Punic stones.

An Empire of the Mediterranean Adrian Goldsworthy 2011

One inscription from a tophet a temple where such sacrifices took place at Carthage declares, It is to the Lady Tanit Face of Baal and to Baal Hammon that Bomilcar son of Hanno, grandson of Milkiathon, vowed this son of his own flesh.

An Empire of the Mediterranean Adrian Goldsworthy 2011

Near the tophet, or cemetery, at ancient Carthage he found hundreds of pointed stelae, re-used as building material for a structure erected after the city was destroyed by the Romans in 146 B.C.

Sunken Frigate Yields Carthaginian Artifacts 1999

"Don't that beat tophet and repeat?" they inquired, in exact unison.

Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Various

'Taint right to give even nigs sech hell-fire as they sell round har; it git's a feller's stumac used ter tophet 'fore the rest on him is

The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

It's somethin 'that makes me as mad as tophet when you start me out to do anything I don't feel it's no ways right to do, and it keeps whisperin' to me I'm a fool to do it.

Country Neighbors Alice Brown 1902

Mossbacks are always ready to believe that a man that's travelled any has been raising seventeen kinds of tophet all his life.

The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

"A boomerang has come back and mowed us flatter than an oven door in tophet."

The Landloper Holman Day 1900

But if you ain't A-1, shipshape, and seamanlike and come aboard my vessel to loaf on your job you'll wish you were in tophet with the torches lighted.

Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Holman Day 1900

"We're goin 'to tophet, and you done it, and you've got to pay for it," Brackett wailed over and over, bobbing about on the seat.

The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900