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The name Phoenicia is an ancient Greek exonym that did not correspond precisely to a cohesive culture or society as it would have been understood natively. [7] [8] Therefore, the division between Canaanites and Phoenicians around 1200 BC is regarded as a modern and artificial division. [6] [9]
Personal Names in the Phoenician and Punic Inscriptions: A Catalog, Grammatical Study and Glossary of Elements. Biblical institute Press. Biblical institute Press. ISBN 9788876534270 .
The island of Ibiza derives its name from Phoenician: 𐤀𐤁𐤔𐤌, ʾBŠM, [50] "Dedicated to Bes". [51] [52] (Latin Ebusus). A city, the Sa Caleta Phoenician Settlement, which has been excavated, was established in the mid-seventh century. Diodorus dates this foundation to 654 BC and attributes it to the Carthaginians. [53] [54]
Phoenician (/ f ə ˈ n iː ʃ ən / fə-NEE-shən; Phoenician: śpt knʿn lit. ' language of Canaan ' [2]) is an extinct Canaanite Semitic language originally spoken in the region surrounding the cities of Tyre and Sidon.
The name Carthage / ... (Phoenician form of the name) ... its free male population alone may have numbered roughly 200,000 in 241 BC, excluding resident foreigners. ...
Among the Phoenician and Punic personal names containing the name of ʿAštart were 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕𐤏𐤆 (ʿAštart-ʿaz, lit. ' ʿAštart is my strength ' , already attested in Amorite Mari as 𒀭𒀸𒁯𒋫𒍣 ), ᴰ Aštart-azi , and 𐤂𐤃𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 ( Gidd-ʿAštart ).
In Greek mythology, Adonis (Ancient Greek: Ἄδωνις, romanized: Adōnis; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤃𐤍, romanized: Adón) was the mortal lover of the goddesses Aphrodite and Persephone. He was famous and considered to be the ideal of male beauty in classical antiquity.
The name of Melqart was invoked in oaths sanctioning contracts, according to Dr. María Eugenia Aubet, [14] thus it was customary to build a temple to Melqart, as protector of Tyrian traders, in each new Phoenician colony: at Cádiz, the temple to Melqart is as early as the earliest vestiges of Phoenician occupation. (The Greeks followed a ...