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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 ...
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.
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.
Cippi and stelae of limestone are characteristic monuments of Punic art and religion, found throughout the western Phoenician world in unbroken continuity, both historically and geographically. [270] Most of them were set up over urns containing cremated human remains, placed within open-air sanctuaries.
Most of them display heavy Phoenician influence. They are as follows: The sculptural set of Cerrillo Blanco; the sculptural set of The Pajarillo; The Punic stela of Villaricos , of conical form and with Phoenician inscription; The Lady of Baza. The plates and combs of ivory with reliefs of Carmona's necropolis.
The subject of the statue is heavily disputed. It clearly belongs within the Greek sculptural tradition, but Motya was a Punic settlement. Which of these two factors should be given preeminence in interpreting the statue is an open question. Scholars who foreground the Punic context of the sculpture have seen it as depicting a Punic priest.
Like other Phoenician people, their urbanized culture and economy were strongly linked to the sea. They settled over Northwest Africa in what is now Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Libya and established some colonies in Southern Iberia, Sardinia, Sicily, Ebusus, Malta and other small islands of the western Mediterranean.
The Yehawmilk stele, de Clercq stele, or Byblos stele, also known as KAI 10 and CIS I 1, is a Phoenician inscription from c.450 BC found in Byblos at the end of Ernest Renan's Mission de Phénicie. Yehawmilk ( Phoenician 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤌𐤋𐤊 ), king of Byblos, dedicated the stele to the city’s protective goddess Ba'alat Gebal .