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  2. Phoenician–Punic literature - Wikipedia

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    Main Phoenician trade routes, which linked the metropolis with its colonies. The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus alludes to the Phoenician or Tyrian chronicles that he allegedly consulted to write his historical works. Herodotus also mentioned the existence of books from Byblos and a History of Tyre preserved in the temple of Hercules-Melqart ...

  3. Punic people - Wikipedia

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    The site of Kerkouane has been extensively excavated and provides the best-known example of a Punic city from North Africa. Punic control also extended inland over the Libyans. Punic influence on inland regions is seen from the early 6th century, notably at Althiburos, where Punic construction techniques and red-slip pottery appear at the time ...

  4. Iberian sculpture - Wikipedia

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    A great deal of Greek and Punic statues and busts in Terra cotta, together with various amulets in ivory, metal or carved of thin stone, have been uncovered at the necropolis of Ibiza, La Palma, and Formentera. The oldest have been dated to the 8th century B.C., and they most likely continued to be made up to the Roman domination.

  5. Phoenician history - Wikipedia

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    Herodotus believed that the Phoenicians originated from Bahrain, [16] [17] a view shared centuries later by the historian Strabo. [18] This theory was accepted by the 19th-century German classicist Arnold Heeren, who noted that Greek geographers described "two islands, named Tyrus or Tylos, and Aradus, which boasted that they were the mother country of the Phoenicians, and exhibited relics of ...

  6. Villaricos Phoenician stele - Wikipedia

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    The Villaricos Phoenician stele on display The Villaricos Phoenician stele is a 5th-century BCE Phoenician or Punic limestone funerary stele found in 1903–04 in the Villaricos necropolis, Spain. Villaricos is located south of Cartagena , which was once an ancient Punic city at the mouth of the river Almanzora .

  7. Marseille Tariff - Wikipedia

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    The Marseille Tariff is a Punic language inscription from the third century BCE, found on two fragments of a stone in June 1845 at Marseille in Southern France. It is thought to have originally come from the temple of Baal-Saphon in Carthage.

  8. Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum - Wikipedia

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    Part I. Phoenician, Punic and neo-Punic inscriptions. This series brought together the Phoenician inscriptions found in Phoenicia itself, in Cyprus, in Egypt, in Greece, in Malta, in Sicily, in Sardinia, in Italy, in Gaul, in Spain, and in particular the vast number of North African Punic inscriptions, particularly from Carthage.

  9. Phoenicia under Roman rule - Wikipedia

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    The temple complex of Roman Heliopolis (now Baalbek). Phoenicia under Roman rule describes the Phoenician city states (in the area of modern Lebanon, coastal Syria, the northern part of Galilee, Acre and the Northern Coastal Plain) ruled by Rome from 64 BCE to the Muslim conquests of the 7th century.