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An alternative hypothesis on the origin of the Greek alphabet

open access: yesKervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2023
Did the Greeks learn the alphabet directly from the Phoenicians or did they learn it from non-Semitic intermediaries? Were these intermediaries the Phrygians or did the Phrygians learn it from the Greeks or some other people?
Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti
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A PHOENICIAN ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ IN PANTICAPAEUM?

open access: yesAncient World and Archaeology, 2023
the paper proposes to read in the graffito on the attic black-glazed kylix founded in Kertch at 2017 – yod, beth, and shin: 12 sh(iglu), i.e. a bank receipt the bearer of which was supposed to get this money from the Phoenician trapezites in Panticapaeum.
openaire   +1 more source

Viaggiando nel tempo 1: il tofet di Cartagine

open access: yesCartagine. Studi e Ricerche, 2017
Le indagini fatte nel tofet di Cartagine  fin dai primi anni del secolo scorso sono state messe in difficoltà dalla falda dell’acqua marina. Attualmente i livelli relativi al IV secolo a.C. sono impraticabili a causa dell’acqua.
Piero Bartoloni
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The appropriation of the Phoenicians in British imperial ideology

open access: yes, 2001
The Phoenicians played ambivalent roles in Western historical imagination. One such role was as a valued predecessor and prototype for the industrial and maritime enterprise of nineteenth-century imperial Britain.
Champion, Timothy, Timothy Champion
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religion, Phoenician and Punic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The Phoenician and Punic religion was a polytheistic system, characterized by local specificities and some common features. It is attested in the whole Mediterranean basin throughout the first millennium bce, with significant evolutions since the Archaic period, due to frequent contacts with many different cultures, such as Greece, Egypt, Etruria, etc.
openaire   +1 more source

Ceramic Production and Geodiversity in Iron Age Iberia: An Archaeometric Study of Pottery from Castrejón de Capote (SW Spain)

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The hillfort of Castrejón de Capote is one of the best investigated settlements of Late Iron Age southwest Iberia. Located in the territory that the classical sources attributed to the Celtici, it was occupied between the early 4th and the 1st centuries bce.
Beatrijs de Groot   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mortars From Punic and Hellenistic–Roman Solunto: Materials, Formulations, and Technology

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents an archaeometric investigation of 18 hydraulic rendering and bedding mortars from Punic and Hellenistic–Roman Solunto (NW Sicily). The research aimed to characterize raw materials, reconstruct manufacturing sequences, and evaluate technological proficiency through mineralogical and petrochemical analyses.
G. Montana   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The circulation and distribution of classical Greek coinage

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract From a sample of the most prominent Greek city‐states, data involving a total of 999 hoards and 160,007 coins from 550 to 300 BC were collected to discern the relative magnitudes, consistency of issue, and distribution of Classical Greek coinages.
Zane Mullins
wiley   +1 more source

Sebastián Celestino, Carolina López-Ruiz Tartessos and the Phoenicians in Iberia, Oxford University Press, 2016

open access: yes, 2018
Sebastián Celestino, Carolina López-Ruiz Tartessos and the Phoenicians in Iberia, Oxford University Press ...
Krueger, Michał
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“You give me letters instead of money?” Commercial transactions in the Near East and the Western Mediterranean ca. 1100-600 BCE: social innovation and institutional inhibition of Phoenician commerce

open access: yesRevista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, 2017
Two of the most crucial and fundamental problems in proto-historical and anthropological research relate to the popularization of literacy and the origins of money.
Eleftheria Pappa
doaj   +1 more source

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