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Nora Stone. The Nora Stone or Nora Inscription is an ancient Phoenician inscribed stone found at Nora on the south coast of Sardinia in 1773. Though it was not discovered in its primary context, it has been dated by palaeographic methods to the late 9th century to early 8th century BCE [1] and is still considered the oldest Phoenician ...
The Ship Sarcophagus: a Phoenician ship carved on a sarcophagus, 2nd century AD. The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC. [1]
The reported 1880s date of discovery is important to those who believe that the stone is pre-Columbian. However, the Paleo-Hebrew script, which is closely related to the Phoenician script, was known to scholars by at least 1870 - thus not precluding the possibility of a modern hoax. [9] Los Lunas Decalogue Stone after 2006 vandalization of ...
The Nora Stone, found in Sardinia, Italy in the 18th century, is the most ancient Phoenician inscription ever found outside the Phoenician heartland (c. 8th-9th century BC). It is indicative of the expansive trade network the Phoenicians established in ancient times.
Sa Caleta is an archaeological site featuring the ruins of an ancient Phoenician settlement on a rocky headland about 10 kilometers west of Ibiza Town in Spain 's Balearic Islands. The Phoenicians established a foothold in this area around 654β650 BC, and the site was abandoned by 600 BC. [1] The discovery of the foundations of simple stone ...
The sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II is a 6th-century BC sarcophagus unearthed in 1855 in the grounds of an ancient necropolis southeast of the city of Sidon, in modern-day Lebanon, that contained the body of Eshmunazar II (Phoenician: π€π€π€π€π€π€π€ ΚΎΕ‘mnΚΏzr, r. c. 539 β c. 525 BC), Phoenician King of Sidon. One of only three ...
KAI 1. The Ahiram sarcophagus (also spelled Ahirom, π€π€π€π€ β in Phoenician) was the sarcophagus of a Phoenician King of Byblos (c. 1000 BC), discovered in 1923 by the French excavator Pierre Montet in tomb V of the royal necropolis of Byblos. The sarcophagus is famed for its bas relief carvings, and its Phoenician inscription.
The presence of Phoenician letters on the ivories suggests that they were the product of Phoenician craftsmen. [10] In addition to plaques, many small ivory carvings of female heads have been found at Nimrud, most only one or two inches in height, but a few over 5 inches tall.