#phoenician — Public Fediverse posts
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History doesn't get a second chance. 💜
https://www.thelevantfiles.org/2026/06/israel-orders-evacuation-of-tyre.html
#Tyre #Lebanon #Sour #Phoenician #UNESCO #WorldHeritage #MiddleEast #Ceasefire #CulturalHeritage #SaveTyre #BreakingNews
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Phoenician colony of Gadir (now Cadiz, Spain)
https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/1908215/phoenician-colony-of-gadir-now-cadiz-spain
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Carthaginian coin with a crayfish, Sicily, Italy, ~3rd century BCE?
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Overview of the city of Carthage during the Punic Wars, Tunisia
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Hey, I reconstructed some #Aramaic letter names! Going back to around 500 BCE, I guess. The similarity to #Greek is usually explained via #Phoenician, but we don't actually have any Phoenician letter names AFAIK.
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#CatchOfTheDay
#OpenAccess on
#MENAdoc:
"Phoeniciae linguae vestigiorum in Melitensi Specimen I." by Johann Joachim Bellermann[Berolini: Maurer, 1809]
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Even though the Nazis forbid it... we talk. #zeta #alphadraconian #dagon #phoenician #magnafrisia
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Don't get me wrong, we have original Zeta in Leeuwarden who were sick and tired of it themselves and chose a life of poverty with loss of technology... they're in the same boat.
The Zeta did it with their own technology on their person which forms a network. The technology works for one soul only. They have to secure cloning, inherit their own technology to remain in control.
#magnafrisia #zetagrey #zetareticuli #alphadraconian #phoenician #dagon -
Phoenician oil bottles reveal the role of scent in identity and cultural exchange across the Mediterranean
Archaeologists routinely uncover pottery, coins, and bones, but the scents of the past are much more elusive. An innovative interdisciplinary study has now traced fragrances that were once at the heart of Phoenician culture...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/08/phoenician-oil-bottles-reveal-cultural-exchange/
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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #phoenician #phoenicia #ironage
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Iron Age builders at Tell el-Burak, Lebanon, used recycled ceramics in hydraulic mortar, new study reveals
Archaeologists working at the Phoenician site of Tell el-Burak in Lebanon have uncovered an intriguing discovery that sheds new light on Iron Age construction technology. In a Scientific Reports paper, researchers describe the first known use of hydraulic lime plaster in the Phoenician lands...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/07/ceramics-in-hydraulic-mortar-at-tell-el-burak/
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New publications and podcast
Busy year for publications (think that’s it for me this year):
Semitic *ʾilāh- and Hebrew אלהים: From plural ‘gods’ to singular ‘God’ (Open Access)
Abstract: The Biblical Hebrew word אלהים is plural in form. Semantically and syntactically, however, it can be plural or singular. The stem of this noun can be reconstructed as * ʾilāh-. As already noted by Wellhausen, this looks like a broken plural of *ʾil-, the Proto-Semitic word for ‘god’. This article takes Wellhausen’s observation and uses it to explain the plural morphology of Hebrew אלהים. I argue that *ʾilāh- should be reconstructed with redundant plural suffixes in some parts of the paradigm. This reconstructed paradigm is preserved virtually unchanged in Archaic Biblical Hebrew. The reconstructed paradigm also explains the almost complete replacement of *ʾil- by *ʾilāh- in Aramaic and Arabic and allows us to reassess the reasons for the association between the lexeme ‘god’ and plural number. Consequently, earlier suggestions that see אלהים’s plural number as a reflection of pre-Yahwistic polytheism or as a marker of abstractness are no longer tenable.
The varying size of the Sodom coalition in Genesis 14 (in FS Tigchelaar; email me for a PDF)
Trying my hardest to find something that might interest newly retired KU Leuven professor Eibert Tigchelaar, I used some Dead Sea Scrolls and other Second Temple literature as well as other textual and linguistic evidence to seek for order in the number of kings on Sodom’s side in Gen 14. Turns out that this closely aligns with other indications of different layers in this fascinating chapter: one about a local raid, one that may be a reworking of a lost epic, and a third one building on the combination of the first two. If you understand Dutch (or want to practice!), also check out this brand new episode of Timo Epping’s Oudheid, all about this question.
#AncientSouthArabian #Arabic #Aramaic #Bible #Canaanite #GeEz #Genesis #Hebrew #Hosea #linguistics #news #Phoenician #ProtoSemitic
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:youtube: **Runes are not from Phoenician letters**
Jackson Crawford
#Video length: fifteen minutes and twenty-four seconds.
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#DNA analyses uncover #Phoenician culture’s multi-ethnic roots and assimilation of diverse local populations: http://archive.today/2025.04.23-174625/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01283-w #science #genetics #archaeology #archeology #history #punic #carthage
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Two indications that the #Greek letter names are younger than the Greek alphabet itself: 1. The sibilant signs were borrowed when #Phoenician 𐤎 was still an affricate /ts/ (> Ξ /ks/) and 𐤔 was /s/ (> Σ /s/). Names borrowed when /s/ was 𐤎 *simk? > sigma and 𐤔 (*šīn?) had shifted to /š/.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qbe3b7ljafblsyy4dhkkgj7t/post/3lgkv4pb3hc25 -
TIL that #Phoenician traders colonized the islands of #Malta, sometime after 1000 BCE as a stop on their trade routes from the eastern #Mediterranean to #Cornwall.
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Archaeoethnologica: OPHIUSSA Nº 8 - 2024
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/12/ophiussa-n-8-2024.html
#Archaeology #Protohistory #ClassicalArchaeology #IronAge #roman #textilanddress #materialculture #phoenician #Iberia #CentralEurope #Italy #journals #Openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: OPHIUSSA Nº 8 - 2024
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/12/ophiussa-n-8-2024.html
#Archaeology #Protohistory #ClassicalArchaeology #IronAge #roman #textilanddress #materialculture #phoenician #Iberia #CentralEurope #Italy #journals #Openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: OPHIUSSA Nº 8 - 2024
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/12/ophiussa-n-8-2024.html
#Archaeology #Protohistory #ClassicalArchaeology #IronAge #roman #textilanddress #materialculture #phoenician #Iberia #CentralEurope #Italy #journals #Openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: OPHIUSSA Nº 8 - 2024
+INFO in: https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2024/12/ophiussa-n-8-2024.html
#Archaeology #Protohistory #ClassicalArchaeology #IronAge #roman #textilanddress #materialculture #phoenician #Iberia #CentralEurope #Italy #journals #Openaccess
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Phoenician or Carthaginian glass pendants from 5th Century BC. Rod-formed, trailed and tooled glass, around 6cm in height, they were gifted to the Metropolitan Museum in 1881.
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#Carthage était une cité-état #phénicienne située sur la côte de l’ #Afrique du Nord (site de l'actuelle #Tunis) qui, avant le conflit avec #Rome connu sous le nom de #Guerres #Puniques (264-146 av. JC), était la plus grande, la plus #opulente et la plus #puissante entité #politique de la #Méditerranée.
https://www.worldhistory.org/trans/fr/1-205/carthage/
#Phoenician #Carthage #Africa #Rome #Punic Wars #opulent #powerful #politics #Mediterranean.
#tunisia #tunisie #تونس #history #قرطاج -
Earlier this year, I had two fun conversations with the team of the then newly-founded Kedem YouTube channel, which popularizes scholarship on the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible. The first video was published yesterday. We talk about the concept of a language family, what languages constitute the Semitic language family, where Semitic comes from geographically and linguistically, how we can reconstruct earlier ancestors of the attested languages, and a few things this kind of reconstruction tells us about Proto-Semitic.
Stay posted for my second video with this channel, to be released sometime next year, on the different modern and—especially—ancient pronunciations of Biblical Hebrew.
https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/2023/12/30/video-intro-to-the-semitic-language-family/
#Afroasiatic #Akkadian #Amharic #AncientSouthArabian #Arabic #Aramaic #Beja #Berber #Chadic #Cushitic #Egyptian #GeEz #Hebrew #linguistics #Moabite #ModernSouthArabian #news #Omotic #Phoenician #ProtoSemitic #Tigrinya #Ugaritic
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Towards a Definition of the Pre-Classical #Phoenician Temple in the Southern #Levant
https://www.academia.edu/36670320/Towards_a_Definition_of_the_Pre_Classical_Phoenician_Temple_in_the_Southern_Levant
