These early archaeological campaigns led to new catalogs of inscriptions that built upon Gesenius' prior efforts, e.g. Vaux's catalog from the campaigns of Davis (1863). At nearly the same time as each other, both Schröder (1869) and Euting (1871, 1883) produced basic lists of inscriptions, the latter with lithographs for nearly every stela. After a successful military/scholarly campaign in the Levant (1860-1861), Ernst Renan gained support from the AIBL to publish the first tome of the Corpus Inscripitionum Semiticarum, pars prima: Inscriptiones phoenicias continens (CIS I.1, 1881-1887). His definitive collection reshuffled the previous common order of inscriptions and incorporated newer texts gathered by Pricot de Sainte-Marie, by Delattre, and by Reinach & Babelon, etc. This Corpus did have some glaring omissions, however, lacking many well-known inscriptions from funerary contexts (e.g. Carthaginensis octava), lacking many well-known Neo-Punic insciptions, and lacking many inscriptions from North Africa found outside of Carthage (e.g. from Cirta / Constantine, Judas 1857, 1861, 1866, cf. Punica XVIII, Berthier & Charlier 1952-1955 and Bertrandy & Sznycer 1987). Although the AIBL did publish a wider range of inscriptions prior to their inclusion in the CIS, as part of the series Répertoire d'épigraphie sémitique (RÉS), many still remained outside of the Corpus when publication was suspended after the final fasicules of the CIS I.3 (1962) and RÉS (texts: VII 1950; indices: VIII 1968). Besides such inadequacies in coverage, the Corpus can be found only in a few university libraries, it often lacks clear images, and it presents commentary in no-longer-accessible scholastic Latin.

  Among the well-known stelae notably absent from the CIS are those from Hadrumetum (mod. Sousse) that Euting had recorded (see below). Certain studies have produced full lists detailing Hadrumetum stelae now in the Louvre, in the Bardo, and in the Musée archéologique de Sousse, including those inscriptions more recently excavated (e.g. Fantar 1995; Bénichou-Safar 2010, 2016), yet they lack the current status of those extracted by Euting. We now have confirmation that the stelae were acquired by the State Hermitage in St. Petersburg, namely as a donation made in gratitude for the publication of his Punische Steine (Yunusov 2018), and we have specific registry numbers from their accession into the Department of the Ancient Orient (Древний Восток), as reproduced below. Yunusov published only three images of anepigraphic stelae—two still encased in their plaster moulds—but the museum does have a multi-year program in place for conservation and publication of the entire Euting donation.