Phoenician – The Ancient Near East Today

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

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

The typical vertical preservation of ancient wood-planked hulls in the Mediterranean Sea is seen in the Tantura B shipwreck, Israel, with only the lower parts of the structure surviving because of its burial in sediment soon after deposition. Early ninth-century AD. Photo: S. Wachsmann.

January 5, 2022

By ANE Today

Underwater Archaeology

On the Potential of Deep-Submergence Archaeology

January 2022 | Vol. 10.1 By Shelley Wachsmann You are broken by the seas in the depths of the waters. Ezekial 27:34 Ezekiel had it right. Ships do sink in deep water. Common wisdom

Phoenician Tag

Phoenician Trade Associations in Ancient Greece

Maritime Viewscapes and the Material Religion of Levantine Seafarers

On the Potential of Deep-Submergence Archaeology