Transcript Phoenicia - Forum Corvi

Phoenicia
Bronze Age - Persia
Independent Cities
• Trading partners and rivals
• Phoinix -> Phoenician
• Murex dye
Tyrian Purple
Byblos
• ‘Oldest continuously inhabited
city in the world’
• Neolithic (7,000)
• Papyrus
• Cedars
Cedars of Lebanon
Egyptians
• First Dynasty mastabas use Byblos cedars
• Egyptian word for sea boat is a ‘Byblos ship’
• Close ties into New Kingdom – shift from Byblos to Tyre
Sea Peoples?!
• Phoenicians?
• Massive Levantine Collapse ca 1200
Hiram of Tyre
• Ascendency of Tyre
• Sends builders to Jerusalem to build
Solomon’s temple
• Secures trade with David and Solomon
• Mumbai-Middle east?
Phoenician Colonial Presence
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Gades (Spain)
Balaeric Islands
Sardinia
Leptis Magna (Africa)
Carthage
Half of Cyprus and Sicily
Carthage, 814 BC
• Elissa,Dido
• Pygmalion
• Sychaeus
Sidon
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Glass, swordsmiths, dye, textiles – Homer and Vergil
Most easily conquered Phoenician town (Persians – Crusades)
Synonymous with Arabic for ‘fishery’
Soap (13th c AD)
Phoenicia's Most Important Legacy
• Alphabet
• Abjad (A, B, G, D)
*Colonial legacy in North Africa and Spain
Glottal Consonants (from Mrs Awad)