The Phoenicians: The Purple Empire of the Ancient WorldMorrow, 1975 - 288 pages Examines the history, people, culture, civilization, and achievements of the Phoenicians, whose supremacy in shipbuilding and navigation enabled them to be masters of the ancient world for three hundred years. |
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... Phoenician warships and merchantmen Sidon , Byblos's rival : today a humble fishing port Stele with a prayer from Yehimilk to Baal 132-133 Obverse and reverse of a Tyrian coin of the Hellenistic era Relief of a Phoenician ship of Roman ...
... Phoenician warships and merchantmen Sidon , Byblos's rival : today a humble fishing port Stele with a prayer from Yehimilk to Baal 132-133 Obverse and reverse of a Tyrian coin of the Hellenistic era Relief of a Phoenician ship of Roman ...
Page 119
... Phoenician and Punic word for sacrifice in the topheth is molk , ' writes Sabatino Moscati , and his British colleague , Warmington , adds : " The Hebrew word , the same as the Phoenician word on many of the commemorative stelae from ...
... Phoenician and Punic word for sacrifice in the topheth is molk , ' writes Sabatino Moscati , and his British colleague , Warmington , adds : " The Hebrew word , the same as the Phoenician word on many of the commemorative stelae from ...
Page 174
... Phoenician relations had demanded human sacrifices . And he was also said to have homosexual tendencies . And finally - reflecting a last echo of the old gods of the seasons --he too ... Phoenician , a Cretan and 174 THE PHOENICIANS.
... Phoenician relations had demanded human sacrifices . And he was also said to have homosexual tendencies . And finally - reflecting a last echo of the old gods of the seasons --he too ... Phoenician , a Cretan and 174 THE PHOENICIANS.
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The Bedouins of the Sea II | 11 |
The City in the Cedar Grove | 27 |
The Coming of the Aryans | 39 |
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