The last two are certainly Phœnician names, having been found on Phœnician inscriptions; the first is possibly Phœnician also.
D), from the Ph\'d2nician name of the corresponding letter.
It came into the Latin from the Greek, which received it from a Ph\'d2nician source, the ultimate origin probably being Egyptian,.
This deity has been conjectured to be the same with the Ph\'d2nician Adon, or Adonis.
The Ph\'d2nician letter was probably of Egyptian origin.
All these scarabs are of Phœnician manufacture, but they were probably made in Sardinia, as the remains of the workshops and materials used in making them, have been found there.
I think the rudely made are likely of Etruscan or Phœnician manufacture, the finely executed of Greek.
We have seen that the name of Ino Leucothee is sufficiently identified with a circle of Phœnician and outer-world traditions.
They were apt pupils under apt instructors, the Phœnician mariners.
It would seem, then, as if Homer himself knew Egypt mainly through a Phœnician medium.
Now as, when mortal, she had been Phœnician by extraction, and as she thus shows her sympathies with the Hellenic race, we must assume a link between these two facts.
Bishop Thirlwall points also to a Phœnician element in Crete, and to Homer as indicating the Phœnician origin of Minos.
In Humboldt’s Researches, a fragment of a reputed Phœnician inscription is engraved.
But this was spoken at the close of Phœnician history, in the last days of Tyre’s supremacy.
The object of Hanno’s expedition, as stated in the Periplus, was to found Liby-Phœnician cities beyond the Pillars of Hercules.
Humboldt recognised in it some resemblance to the Phœnician alphabet.
It was a Phœnician expedition which, in the reign of Pharaoh Necho, B.
Their skill as seamen was the subject of admiration even by the later Greeks, who owned themselves to be their pupils in seamanship, and called the pole-star, the Phœnician star.
To such a people, the memories of Punic exploration or Phœnician enterprise, or the vague legends of an Atlantis beyond the engirdling ocean, were equally unavailing.
The worship both of Venus and Adonis probably originated in Syria, and was spread through Asia Minor into Greece; while the Carthaginians, a Phœnician colony introduced it into Sicily.
Also, the signs for the Phœnician words Alph, Beth, Gimel, etc.
The extensive use of Phœnician and Greek alphabets in Egypt and throughout the Orient, for some centuries before the Christian era, had affected the Egyptian script as a social and commercial medium.
Many of these tablets were docketed on the sides or edges in Aramean or Phœnician letters, by which the subject of each document could be readily found when piled on the shelves or in recesses where they were deposited.
Taylor says of this: “The idea of alphabetism may not improbably have been suggested to the Persians by their acquaintance with the Phœnician alphabet, which as early as the eighth century B.
The remains discovered in many of the Phœnician tombs would of themselves alone be sufficient to demonstrate luminously the enormous influence exercised by the Egyptian civilization on the life and customs of that people.
However, until these specimens of Phœnician dental art are described and their origin is exactly known, their authenticity will always remain a matter of doubt.
Phœnician appliance found at Sidon, as represented in a cut of Renan’s Mission de Phénicie.
Flinders Petrie adds a note on the weights discovered, almost all of which belong to the Phœnician and Aeginetan systems.
No doubt the Phœnician was taking Lampaxo with him.
Had not King Hephæstos wrought every line of clear Phœnician glass, then touched them with snow and rose, and shot through all the ichor of life?
The grappling-irons dashed down upon the Athenian, and simultaneously the brown Phœnician boarders were scrambling like cats upon her decks.
That industrious Phœnician had been several days in Trœzene, occupied in a manner he and his superior discreetly kept to themselves.
My loyal Phœnician and Egyptian mariners did not do themselves full justice at Artemisium; they lacked the valour which comes from being in the presence of their king.
Long before they closed in unfriendly contact the arrows of the Phœnician pelted over the Nausicaä like hail.
No Persian was hotter for Xerxes’s cause than his Phœnician vassals that day.
The side of the Phœnician was beaten in like an egg-shell.
So the Phœnician vassal kings and all his admirals assured him.
It is the Phœnician fiction as to the Sun-God, expressed in other terms, under other forms, and with other names.
The temple of the Hercules of Tyre was reported to have been built 2300 years before the time of Herodotus; and Hercules, whose Greek name has been sometimes supposed to be of Phœnician origin, in the sense of Circuitor, i.
They were venerated alike by the Priests of Bel, the Magi of Persia, the Shepherds of Chaldea, and the Phœnician navigators, as well as by the astronomers of Egypt.
The Gnostic ogdoade had eight stars, which represented the eight Cabiri of Samothrace, the eight Egyptian and Phœnician principles, the eight gods of Xenocrates, the eight angles of the cubic stone.
Thor was the Sun, the Egyptian Osiris and Kneph, the Phœnician Bel or Baal.
The Phœnician Trinity was Ulomos, Chusoros, and the Egg out of which the Universe proceeded.
One is to the effect that a Ph[oe]nician vessel, sent out by Pharaoh Necho, left the Red Sea and in three years appeared at the Straits of Gibraltar, having circumnavigated the Continent.
Its legs are covered with inscriptions of Greek, Roman, Ph[oe]nician and Egyptian travelers, written to assure the reader that they had really visited the place or had heard the musical tones of Memnon at the rising of the sun.
The worship of the Phœnician goddess Astarte, brought in by Phœnician traders in early days, helped to form the conception which the Greeks had of Aphrodite.
Gaza, next to Tyre, was the most important fortress in the Philistinian-Phœnician coast.
Both the company and the traditions, amidst which Mercury is found, thus invite us to presume that he is a deity of Phœnician importation into Greece.
Even if it were not so, we could not in this point argue from the manners or morals of a Phœnician goddess to those of a Greek damsel.
These divinities belong to the circle of outer or Phœnician traditions, and the Poet is not therefore, in treating them, subject to the same laws as those by which he regulates the Olympian order.
The very frequent intrigues of Neptune with women may be the mythical dress of the adventures of Phœnician sailors in this kind: such as that which is recounted[386] in the story of Eumæus.
It has become manifest that, in at least the case of Crete and Egypt, communication need not have been through Phnician media at all, but was far more probably direct.
It is not till some five centuries later that we find the first dated examples of Phnician writing.
The Phnician mind, if not original, was at all events practical.
When the Phnician had gone Nehushta sat by her sleeping mistress, and waited with an anxious heart.
Without trouble or molestation the party reached the quay, where a small boat with two Phnician rowers was waiting for them.
Zeno, of Citium, a city in the island of Cyprus, founded by Phœnician settlers, was the son of Mnaseas.
They were called Phœnician Islands, because the Carthaginians had sent out a colony thither 160 years after the founding of their city.
The Phœnician Hercules, anterior to the Grecian hero by two or three centuries.
But in beauty it much excelled [all] upon the whole earth, for the ingenious Sidonians had wrought it cunningly, and Phœnician men had carried it.
Posidonius thinks this view the most probable of all, and looks upon the oracle and the several expeditions as a Phœnician invention.
Skilful Sidonian artists had around Embellish’d it, and o’er the sable deep Phœnician merchants into Lemnos’ port Had borne it.
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