The Athenian Greek-Phoenician inscriptions are 18 ancient Phoenician inscriptions found in the region of Athens, Greece (also known as
Attica
Attica ( el, Αττική, Ancient Greek ''Attikḗ'' or , or ), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the city of Athens, the capital of Greece and its countryside. It is a peninsula projecting into the Aegean Se ...
). They represent the second largest group of foreign inscriptions in the region after the
Thracians
The Thracians (; grc, Θρᾷκες ''Thrāikes''; la, Thraci) were an Indo-European languages, Indo-European speaking people who inhabited large parts of Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe in ancient history.. ...
(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.
The bilingual inscriptions
Athens inscriptions
Piraeus inscriptions
References
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*{{cite journal , last1=Tribulato , first1=Olga , title=Phoenician Lions: The Funerary Stele of the Phoenician Shem/Antipatros , journal=Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens , date=2013 , volume=82 , issue=3 , pages=459–486 , doi=10.2972/hesperia.82.3.0459 , jstor=10.2972/hesperia.82.3.0459 , s2cid=192761663 , url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.82.3.0459 , issn=0018-098X, access-date=29 October 2020
External links
Artemidorus stele on Attic Inscriptions OnlineKAI 60 on the Louvre site (AO 4827)Noumenius stele on the Louvre site (AO 4834)
Phoenician inscriptions
Ancient Athens
Archaeological discoveries in Central Greece
KAI inscriptions
Phoenician steles
Archaeological artifacts
Collections of the Louvre