Athenian Greek-Phoenician inscriptions

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The Athenian Greek-Phoenician inscriptions are 18 ancient Phoenician inscriptions found in the region of Athens, Greece (also known as Attica). They represent the second largest group of foreign inscriptions in the region after the Thracians (25 inscriptions). 9 of the inscriptions are bilingual Phoenician-Greek and written on steles. Almost all of them bear the indication of the deceased's city of origin, not just the more general designation of their ethnicity, like most other non-Greek inscriptions in the region. [1]

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The bilingual inscriptions

Athens inscriptions

Dedicated toImageTypeDiscoveredDateCurrent Location Concordance
KAI CIS / RÉS NEKINSITSSI IG  II2
Artemidoros son of Heliodoros of Sidon = Abdtanit, son of Abdshamash, of Sidon Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum CIS I 116 (from Athens) (cropped).jpg Funerary1795ca. 340 BC [2] British Museum (BM 1861,0726.1 and 1937,1211.1) [3] 53I 116424,245III 4010270
Antipatros son of Aphrodisias of Askalon = Shem son of Abdashtart of Askalon Ancient Greece Marble Funerary Stele of Antipatros son of Aphrodisias of Askalon. Inscription in Greek and Phoenician. Mid-4th Cent. BC.jpg Funerary1861300s BC National Archaeological Museum, Athens (NM 1488)54I 115424,146328388
Benḥudeš, son of 'Abdmilqart, son of 'Abdšamaš, son of TGNṢ of Kition [4] =
Noumenios of Citium		 Phoenician funeral stele Louvre AO4834.jpg Funerary1794 [5] ca. 300 BC [4] Louvre (AO 4834)55I 117424,347349034
Erene of Byzantium Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum CIS I 120 (from Piraeus) (cropped).jpg Funerary1831 Archaeological Museum of Piraeus (3582)56I 120425,1488440

Piraeus inscriptions

Dedicated toImageTypeDiscoveredDateCurrent Location Concordance
KAI CIS / RÉS NEKINSITSSI IG  II2
Maḥdaš son of Pene-Simlat of Kition =
Noumenios of Kition		 Lidzbarski's Handbuch der Nordsemitischen Epigraphik Table VIII number 4 (cropped).jpg Funerary1884200s BC57R 388425,249
Askun-Adar CIS I 118 full Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum CIS I 115-121 (from Athens and Piraeus) (cropped).jpg Dedication1871100 BC Archaeological Museum of Piraeus 58I 118425,550
Asepte daughter of Sysemelos of Sidon =
Asept daughter of Ešmunšillemi of Sidon		 Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum CIS I 119 (from Piraeus) (cropped).jpg Funerary1841200s BC Archaeological Museum of Piraeus 59I 119425,3513510271
Diopeithes of Sidon =
Shema'ba'al son of Magon

(Marzēaḥ inscription)

 Stele dite des Sidoniens avec inscription bilingue - 300-200 av. J.-C. - Le Piree (Grece) - Louvre - AO 4827 - picture 04.jpg Decree1887 [6] ca. 300 BC [7] Louvre 60R 1215425,45233III 412946
Abdešmun son of Šallum son of Ab[...] 7587 - Piraeus Arch. Museum, Athens - Stele of a phoenician - Photo by Giovanni Dall'Orto, Nov 14 2009.jpg Funerary1842 Archaeological Museum of Piraeus (3850)I 121

References

  1. ↑ Bäbler, Balbina (3 May 2011). Fleissige Thrakerinnen und wehrhafte Skythen: Nichtgriechen im klassischen Athen und ihre archäologische Hinterlassenschaft. Walter de Gruyter. p. 131. ISBN   978-3-11-093463-2. Es gibt insgesamt achtzehn Grabstelen für Phönizier in Attika (Kat. 51-68), womit diese die zweitgrösste Gruppe nach den Thrakern mit fünfundzwanzig Monumenten bilden. Ihr auffälligstes Merkmal ist die Zweisprachigkeit: Neun Stelen tragen neben der griechischen auch eine phönizische Inschrift. Bemerkenswert ist ferner, dass vierzehn der erhaltenen Stelen für Männer errichtet wurden und diese fast alle im Namen die Angabe ihrer Herkunftsstadt tragen, nicht die nur die allgemeinere Bezeichnung ihrer Volkszugehörigkeit, wie die meisten anderen Nichtgriechen.
  2. ↑ Pitt 2022, p. 37.
  3. ↑ Marble stele of a Phoenician resident of Athens with a bilingual inscription in Greek alphabetic and Phoenician scripts, British Museum
  4. 1 2 Briquel-Chatonnet 2012, p. 622.
  5. ↑ Héron de Villefosse, Antoine (1901). "L'histoire d'une inscription (addition à une note de M. Philippe Berger)". Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (in French). 45 (1). PERSEE Program: 35. doi:10.3406/crai.1901.16700. ISSN   0065-0536.
  6. ↑ Renan, Ernest. “INSCRIPTION PHÉNICIENNE ET GRECQUE DÉCOUVERTE AU PIRÉE.” Revue Archéologique 11 (1888): 5–7. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41728884.
  7. ↑ Baslez & Briquel Chatonnet 1991, p. 229.

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