Phoenicians

Stele with a bilingual inscription in Phoenician and Greek honoring Shamabaal (Diopeithes), leader of an association of Sidonians in Athens. Found at Piraeus, Greece. Louvre AO 4827. © 2014 Musée du Louvre, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn / Thierry Ollivier.

August 2024 | Vol. 12.8 By Denise Demetriou The Phoenicians — famed seafarers, traders, and master craftsmen of the ancient Mediterranean — crisscrossed the sea connecting a va

Fig. 1: Reverse of a Silver coin from Tyre depicting a “Marine God” on a hippokampos (seahorse). Ca. 360–350 BCE. © The Trustees of the British Museum.

September 28, 2023

By ANE Today Editor

Phoenicians Religion

Maritime Viewscapes and the Material Religion of Levantine Seafarers

September 2023 | Vol. 11.9 By Aaron Brody For ancient peoples, travel was profoundly liminal. Voyaging at sea was doubly liminal, leaving the safety of land and existing in a state

A decorated egg from the Isis Tomb, Vulci, Italy. © Tamar Hodos, University of Bristol (with the permission of the Trustees of the British Museum).

February 9, 2021

By ANE Today Editor

Animals Craft & Industry Phoenicians Trade & Economy

Eggstraordinary Objects

February 2021 | Vol. 9.2 By Tamar Hodos In the interconnected world of the ancient Greeks, Phoenicians, Assyrians, and Egyptians, ostrich eggs were coveted by elites across the Med

Phoenician Trade Associations in Ancient Greece

Maritime Viewscapes and the Material Religion of Levantine Seafarers

Eggstraordinary Objects