Provenance and political borders: A phoenician inscription of the hellenistic period 'strays' across modern borders

Reuven Friedman, Avner Ecker

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Abstract

A Phoenician temple inscription (222/221 BCE), owned and exhibited by the Louvre Museum, was originally acquired by the museum in the late nineteenth century. The artefact is incorrectly attributed by the Louvre to Mafachouq, a suburb of ancient Tyre in modern Lebanon. The archives of the French national museums and the original reports of the artefact clearly place the provenance at Kh. Ma(§ub in the Upper Galilee of modern Israel, at the gateway of an ancient strategic mountain pass between Akko and Tyre. The correct provenance of the artefact suggests a system of Phoenician temple complexes serving travellers at each end of the hazardous mountain route.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)60-72
Number of pages13
JournalEnvironment Protection Engineering
Volume45
Issue number2
StatePublished - 2019

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