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Lioness Devouring a Boy, Phoenician Ivory Panel
This Phoenician carved ivory panel is one of an almost identical pair with one now in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad. They originally formed part of a piece of furniture, perhaps a throne. The incised letter 'aleph' beside holes on the top and...
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Phoenician Bronze Bowl From Nimrud
This bowl was part of a hoard found by Sir Henry Layard in 1850-1851 CE in the North-West Palace at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu). They were probably deposited there in the 8th century BCE. The decoration on the bowls is Phoenician, very similar...
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Cypro-Phoenician Pottery Vessel
This vessel belongs to a ceramic tradition known as "black-on-red" ware, the most ubiquitous of the Iron Age's Cypro-Phoenician exports. Iron Age II, 1000-539 BCE. From Amman, Jordan. (The Jordan Museum, Amman, Jordan).
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Phoenician/Punic Necklace with Amulets
Phoenician or Carthaginian amulets in the form of bearded heads made of sand-core glass, 4th-3rd century BCE (Cagliari, Museo Archeologico Nazionale).
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Phoenician-Punic Gold Pectoral
A Phoenician-Punic gold pectoral, 8th-7th Century BCE. From the El Carambolo Treasure, Seville. (National Archaeological Museum, Madrid)
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Phoenician Scarab Seal
A Phoenician carved scarab seal (sard and gold) depicting the hawk of Horus holding an ankh and a feather of Maat. 750-500 BCE. (British Museum, London)
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Phoenician Tambourine Player from Tharros
This is a baked clay votive figurine of woman playing a tambourine. The curls of her hair show a Greek influence. The Canaanite traditions of terracotta figurine manufacturer were continued by the Phoenicians, both at home and in the colonies...
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Head of a Phoenician Woman
This is a head of woman wearing an Egyptian wig. The hole at the top is a hole for suspension. Part of a baked clay votive figure. The Canaanite traditions of terracotta figurine manufacturer were continued by the Phoenicians, both at home...
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A Linguistical Analysis of Ancient Celtic Languages
The Celtic languages form a branch of the Indo-European (IE) language family. They derive from Proto-Celtic and are divided into Continental Celtic languages (Lepontic, Gaulish, Galatian, Noric, Celtiberian, Gallaecian) and Insular Celtic...
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Baal
Baal (also given as Ba'al) is a Canaanite-Phoenician god of fertility and weather, specifically rainstorms. The name was also used as a title, however, meaning "Lord" and was applied to a number of different deities throughout the ancient...