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Phoenician & Punic

Phoenician and its Punic continuation are treated through inscriptions and script history.

The dedicated study site is coming soon. This overview records the planned scope and evidence.

Eshmunazar II sarcophagus inscription, Louvre AO 4806

At a glance

Evidence and writing

Evidence / period
First millennium BCE and later Punic evidence
Region
Levant and western Mediterranean
Writing system
Phoenician and Punic alphabets
Site status
Coming soon

Dates describe surviving written evidence or textual traditions, not necessarily when a spoken language began or ended. Map points indicate a representative centre of evidence, not a language boundary.