Sexi (Phoenician colony)
| Location | Spain |
|---|---|
| Region | Andalusia |
| Coordinates | 36°44′00″N 3°41′00″W / 36.733333°N 3.683333°W |
Sexi (Ex, Sex) was a Phoenician colony at the present-day site of Almuñécar on Spain's Costa Tropical (or "Tropical Coast") .
The Roman name for the place was Sexi Firmum Iulium. At the height of the Roman Empire, its suburbs included Pænis, Socordia and Villa Fatuus Maximus.
History[edit]
An ancient Phoenician settlement, whose earliest phases are archeologically 'cloudy', was located on the Southern Spanish coast, southwest of the Solorius Mons (the modern Sierra Nevada mountain range) at the present-day site of Almuñécar on Spain's Costa Tropical. From the 3rd-2nd centuries BC it issued a sizeable corpus of coinage, with many coins depicting the Phoenician/Punic god Melqart on the obverse and one or two fish on the reverse, possibly alluding to the abundance of the sea and also a principal product of the area.[1] The Barrington atlas of the ancient world equates ancient Sexi with modern Almuñécar.[2]
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Coordinates: 36°44′N 3°41′W / 36.733°N 3.683°W
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