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Sources [edit]

Extant ancient sources[edit]

Eusebius of Caesarea (1903) [4th century AD]. Praeparatio Evangelica [Preparation for the Gospel]. Translated by Gifford, E. H. Archived from the original on 2020-02-12 – via Tertullian.com.
Lucian, (Lucian of Samosata) (1913) [Second century AD]. Garstang, John (ed.). De dea Syria [On the Syrian goddess]. Translated by Strong, Herbert Augustus. London: London Constable.
Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius; Duff, James Duff (1927). Punica. Vol. 1. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius; Duff, James Duff (1927). Punica. Vol. 2. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Wenamun (2017) [1000 BCE]. "The Report of Wenamun". Ancient History Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 2020-08-25. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
Pseudo Scylax (2019) [350 BC]. "Periplous". Topostext. Archived from the original on 7 November 2023. Retrieved 4 April 2024.

Archaegology[edit]

Marat (Amrit)
Dunand, Maurice; Saliby, Nessib (1985). Le temple d'Amrith dans la pérée d'Aradus (in French). Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner. ISBN 9782705303082.

Ruad (Aradus)
Josette Elayi; M. R. Haykal, eds. (1996). Nouvelles découvertes sur les usages funéraires des Phéniciens d'Arwad. Transeuphratène Supplément. Paris: Gabalda. ISBN 978-2-85021-094-5.

Gebal (Byblos)

Dunand, Maurice (1939). Fouilles de Byblos: Tome 1er, 1926-1932. Bibliothèque archéologique et historique (in French). Vol. 24. Paris: Librarie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner.
Dunand, Maurice (1937). Fouilles de Byblos: Tome 1er, 1926–1932 (Atlas) [The Byblos excavations, Tome 1, 1926–1932 (Atlas)]. Bibliothèque archéologique et historique (in French). Vol. 24. Paris: Geuthner – via gallica.bnf.fr.
Dunand, M. (1950). "Chronologie des Plus Anciennes Installations de Byblos". Revue Biblique (1946-). 57 (4): 583–603. ISSN 0035-0907. JSTOR 44091237.
Dunand, Maurice (1973). Fouilles de Byblos: L'architecture, les tombes, le matériel domestique des origines néolithiques à l'avènement urbain (in French). Maisonneuve.
Elayi, Josette (2009). Byblos, cité sacrée (8e-4e s. av. J.-C.). Paris: Gabalda. ISBN 978-2-85021-195-9.
Lauffray, Jean (2008). Fouilles de Byblos. Tome VI: L'urbanisme et l'architecture: de l'époque proto-urbaine à l'occupation amorite (de l'Énéolithique à l'âge du Bronze II) (in French). Institut Français du Proche-Orient. ISBN 978-2-35159-072-0.
Montet, Pierre (1928). Byblos et l'Egypte: Quatre Campagnes de Fouilles à Gebeil 1921-1922-1923-1924 (Texte) [Byblos and Egypt: four excavation campaigns in Gebeil 1921-1922-1923-1924 (Text)]. Bibliothèque archéologique et historique (in French). Vol. 11. Paris: Geuthner – via archive.org.
Montet, Pierre (1929). Byblos et l'Egypte Quatre Campagnes de Fouilles à Gebeil 1921-1922-1923-1924 (Atlas) [Byblos and Egypt: four excavation campaigns in Gebeil 1921-1922-1923-1924 (Atlas)]. Bibliothèque archéologique et historique (in French). Vol. 11. Paris: Geuthner – via archive.org.

Bēʾrūt (Beirut)
Josette Elayi; Hala Sayegh, eds. (2000). Archéologie et histoire. Un quartier du port phénicien de Beyrouth au Fer III - Perse. Paris: Gabalda. ISBN 978-2-85021-125-6.

Sidon

Contenau, Georges (1920). "Mission archéologique à Sidon (1914)". Syria. Archéologie, Art et histoire. 1 (1): 16–55. doi:10.3406/syria.1920.2837.
Contenau, Georges (1920). "Mission archéologique à Sidon (1914) deuxième partie". Syria. Archéologie, Art et histoire. 1 (1): 108–154. doi:10.3406/syria.1920.8092.
Contenau, Georges (1920). "Mission archéologique à Sidon (1914). Troisième article.La Caverne aux inscriptions". Syria. Archéologie, Art et histoire. 1 (1): 198–229. doi:10.3406/syria.1920.8094.
Contenau, Georges (1923). "Deuxième mission archéologique à Sidon (1920)". Syria. Archéologie, Art et histoire. 4 (4): 261–281. doi:10.3406/syria.1923.3007.
Contenau, Georges (1924). "Deuxième mission archéologique à Sidon II (1920)". Syria. Archéologie, Art et histoire. 5 (1): 9–23. doi:10.3406/syria.1924.3094.
Contenau, Georges (1924). "Deuxième mission archéologique à Sidon III (1920)". Syria. Archéologie, Art et histoire. 5 (2): 123–134. doi:10.3406/syria.1924.3037.

Temple of Eshmun
Stucky, Rolf A. (1997). "Le bâtiment aux frises d'enfants du sanctuaire d'Echmoun à Sidon". Topoi. Orient-Occident. 7 (2): 915–927. doi:10.3406/topoi.1997.1754.

Umm al-Amed
Dunand, Maurice; Duru, Raymond (1962). Oumm el-'Amed: une ville de l'époque hellénistique aux échelles de Tyr ... (in French). Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient.

Carthage
Moscati, Sabatino; Gemmingen-Roser, Hannelore von (1984). Die Karthager. Völker und Kulturen. Stuttgart & Zürich: Belser. ISBN 978-3-7630-1731-7. Parrot, André; Moscati, Sabatino; Chéhab, Maurice H (1997). I Fenici: l'espansione fenicia, Cartagine. Milano: Rizzoli. ISBN 978-88-17-29522-2.

Other Mediterranean dependencies
Sardinia Moscati, Sabatino; Bartoloni, Piero (2005). Fenici e cartaginesi in Sardegna. Nuoro: Ilisso. ISBN 978-88-89188-24-8. Sicily Moscati, Sabatino (1998). L' arte della Sicilia punica (nuova ed.). Milano: Jaca Book. ISBN 978-88-16-60230-4.

Topics[edit]

General

Rollig, Wolfgang (1983). "On the origin of the Phoenicians" (PDF). Berytus. 31: 79–93. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-02-11 – via Heidelberg University.
Sader, Hélène S (2019). The history and archaeology of Phoenicia. ISBN 978-1-62837-255-7.
André Lemaire; Josette Elayi, eds. (2014). Phéniciens d'Orient et d'Occident: mélanges Josette Elayi. Cahiers de l'institut du Proche-Orient ancien du Collège de France. Paris: Maisonneuve. ISBN 978-2-7200-1162-7.
Harden, Donald B. (1962). The Phoenicians. New York.
Herm, Gerhard (1975). The Phoenicians : the Purple Empire of the ancient world. Internet Archive. New York : Futura. ISBN 978-0-7088-1558-8.
Edward Lipiński; Claude Baurain; Jacques Alexandropoulos, eds. (1992). Dictionnaire de la civilisation phénicienne et punique. Turnhout: Brepols. ISBN 978-2-503-50033-1.
Moscati, Sabatino (1960). Ancient Semitic Civilizations (PDF). Capricorn Books. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-04-18.
Moscati, Sabatino (1968). The World of the Phoenicians. London; New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson ; Praeger. ISBN 978-0-297-17049-5.
Moscati, Sabatino (1973). The world of the Phoenicians. Internet Archive. London : Cardinal. ISBN 978-0-351-17404-9.
Moscati, Sabatino (1988). The Phoenicians | I Fenici (First ed.). Mailand: Bompiani. ISBN 978-0-89659-892-8.
Moscati, Sabatino (1997). I Fenici. Milano: Bompiani. ISBN 978-88-452-3198-8.
Moscati, Sabatino; Hamilton, Alastair (1999). The world of the Phoenicians. London: Phoenix Giant. ISBN 978-0-7538-0746-0.
Moscati, Sabatino (2001). Civiltà del mare: i fondamenti della storia mediterranea. La cultura storica (1st ed.). Napoli: Liguori. ISBN 978-88-207-3181-6.
Moscati, Sabatino (2012). The face of the Ancient Orient: Near Eastern civilization in pre-classical times. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-1-306-35890-3. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
Gras, Michel; Rouillard, Pierre; Teixidor, Javier (1989). L'univers phenicien. Paris: Arthaud. ISBN 978-2-7003-0732-0.

History

Elayi, Josette (2019), Histoire de la Phénicie

Under Assyria and Persia

Elayi, Josette (2018). Sennacherib, King of Assyria. Archaeology and biblical studies. Atlanta: SBL Press. ISBN 978-1-62837-217-5.
Elayi, Josette (2017). Sargon II, King of Assyria. Archaeology and biblical studies. Atlanta: SBL Press. ISBN 978-1-62837-177-2.
Elayi, Josette (2006). "The Role of the Phoenician Kings at the Battle of Salamis (480 B.C.E.)". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 126 (3): 411–418. ISSN 0003-0279. JSTOR 20064517.
Moscati, Sabatino (1959). The Semites in ancient history. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-0074-9.
Karel Van Lerberghe; Edward Lipiński, eds. (1995). Immigration and emigration within the Ancient Near East: Festschrift E. Lipiński. Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta. Leuven: Peeters [u.a.] ISBN 978-90-6831-727-5.

Art

Annie Caubet; Éric Gubel, eds. (2002). Art phénicien: la sculpture de tradition phénicienne. Catalogue / Département des Antiquités Orientales du Musée du Louvre. Paris: Éd. de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux [u.a.] ISBN 978-90-5349-416-5.
Moscati, Sabatino, ed. (1990). L' arte dei Fenici (1st ed.). Milano: Fabbri. ISBN 978-88-450-3614-9.

Ivory=

Mertzenfeld, Christiane Decamps de (1954). Inventaire Commenté Des Ivoires Phéniciens Et Apparentés Découverts Dans Le Proche-Orient (in French). E. de Boccard.

Pottery

Bettles, Elizabeth A. (2003). Phoenician amphora production and distribution in the southern Levant: a multi-disciplinary investigation into carinated-shoulder amphorae of the Persian period (539 - 332 BC). BAR International Series. Oxford: Archaeopress. ISBN 978-1-84171-550-6.
Bikai, Patricia Maynor (1978). The Pottery of Tyre. Aris and Phillips. ISBN 978-0-85668-108-0.

Funerary art

Sader, Hélène (2005). Iron Age funerary stelae from Lebanon. Cuadernos de Arqueología Mediterránea. Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra. ISBN 978-84-7290-276-3.

Numismatics, sigillography and metrology

Contenau, Georges (1940). "Les Cylindres-Sceaux orientaux". Journal des Savants. 2 (1): 65–77.
Elayi, Josette (2018). The history of Phoenicia. Atlanta: Lockwood Press. ISBN 978-1-937040-81-9.
Elayi, Josette; Elayi, Alain G. (2014). Phoenician coinages. Transeuphratène Supplément. Paris: Gabalda. ISBN 978-2-85021-229-1.
Elayi, Josette; Elayi, Alain G. (2009). The coinage of the Phoenician city of Tyre in the Persian period (5th - 4th cent. BCE). Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta. Leuven: Peeters [u.a.] ISBN 978-90-429-2202-0.
Elayi, Josette; Elayi, Alain G (2004). Le monnayage de la cité phénicienne de Sidon à l'époque perse: Ve - IVe s. av. J.-C.. t. 2. t. 2. ISBN 978-2-85021-158-4.
Elayi, Josette; Elayi, Alain G. (1997). Recherches sur les poids phéniciens. Supplément à Transeuphratène. Paris: Gabalda. ISBN 978-2-85021-102-7.
Elayi, Josette; Elayi, A. G. (1993). Trésors de monnaies phéniciennes et circulation monétaire: Ve - IVe siècles avant J.-C. Supplément ... à Transeuphratène. Paris: Gabalda. ISBN 978-2-85021-060-0.
Elayi, Josette; Elayi, A. G (1989). La monnaie à travers les âges. Paris: Idéaphane. ISBN 978-2-906838-02-4.

Religion and funerary practices

Lipiński, Edward (1995). Dieux et déesses de l'univers phénicien et punique. Studia Phoenicia. Leuven: Peeters [u.a.] ISBN 978-90-6831-690-2.
Lipiński, Edward (2009). Resheph: a Syro-Canaanite deity. Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta. Leuven: Peeters [u.a.] ISBN 978-90-429-2107-8.
Moscati, Sabatino (1991). Gli adoratori di Moloch: indagine su un celebre rito cartaginese. Arte, storia, archeologia (1st ed.). Milano: Jaca Book. ISBN 978-88-16-66004-5.
Teixidor, Javier (1977). The Pagan God. ISBN 978-1-4008-7139-1.
Teixidor, Javier (1979). The Pantheon of Palmyra: With 1 frontispiece, 1 map and 35 pl. (Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'empire romain. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-05987-0.
Brody, Aaron J. (2018-06-13). "Each Man Cried Out to His God": The Specialized Religion of Canaanite and Phoenician Seafarers. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-36919-1.

Geography
Lipiński, Edward (2004). Itineraria Phoenicia. Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta. Leuven: Peeters. ISBN 978-90-429-1344-8.

Linguistics, epigraphy and paleography

Académie des inscriptions & belles -lettres (France ) Commission du Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum, Jean-Baptiste Chabot (1905). Répertoire d'épigraphie sémitique (in French). University of Michigan. Imprimerie nationale.
Dunand, Maurice (1945). Byblia grammata: documents et recherches sur le développement de l'écriture en Phénicie (in French). na.
Lipiński, Edward (2015). Peuples de la mer, Phéniciens, Puniques: études d'épigraphie et d'histoire méditerranéenne. Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta. Leuven: Peeters. ISBN 978-90-429-3161-9.
Moscati, Sabatino (2011). An introduction to the comparative grammar of the Semitic languages: phonology and morphology. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. ISBN 978-3-447-00689-7.
AISTLEITNER, J. (1954). "Ein opfertext aus Ugarit (1929 N o 2)" [A sacrificial text from Ugarit]. Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae (in German). 4 (1/3): 259–270. ISSN 0001-6446. JSTOR 23682605.
Bruston, Ch. (1921). "Les plus vielles inscriptions Cananéennes" [The oldest Canaanite inscriptions]. Revue Archéologique (in French). 14: 49–80. ISSN 0035-0737. JSTOR 23908291.
George Albert Cooke (1903). A Text-book of North-Semitic Inscriptions: Moabite, Hebrew, Phoenician, Aramaic, Nabataean ... The Clarendon Press.

Punic wars
Moscati, Sabatino (1994). Introduzione alle guerre puniche: origine e sviluppo dell'impero di Cartagine. Storia. Torino: Soc. Ed. Internaz. ISBN 978-88-05-05412-1. Moscati, Sabatino; Fantar, Mohamed Hassine (1996). L'Empire de Carthage. Paris: Mediterranee. ISBN 978-2-84272-006-3.

By Period[edit]

Persian era
Elayi, J. (1989). Sidon: cité autonome de l ́Empire perse. Paris: Éd. Idéaphane. ISBN 978-2-906838-03-1.

Hellenistic Phoenicia
Nitschke, Jessica (2015). "What is Phoenician about Phoenician material culture in the Hellenistic period ?". Topoi. Orient-Occident. 13 (1): 207–238.

Early, open source[edit]

Ernest Renan - Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum

Renan, Ernest (1864). Mission de Phénicie. TEXTE / dirigée par M. Ernest Renan [Mission of Phoenicia directed by Ernest Renan: Text] (in French). Paris: Imprimerie impériale. Archived from the original on 2021-10-06.
Renan, Ernest (1881). Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum ab Academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum Humanorium conditum atgue digestum. Atlas - Pars 1, Tomus 1 (in Latin). Paris: Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France).
Renan, Ernest (1881). Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum ab Academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum Humanorium conditum atgue digestum. Atlas - Pars 1, Tomus 1, (Tabulae) (in Latin). Paris: Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France).
Renan, Ernest (1881). Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum ab Academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum Humanorium conditum atgue digestum. Atlas - Pars 1, Tomus 2 (in Latin). Paris: Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France).
Renan, Ernest (1881). Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum ab Academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum Humanorium conditum atgue digestum. Atlas - Pars 1, Tomus 2, (Tabulae) (in Latin). Paris: Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France).
Renan, Ernest (1881). Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum ab Academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum Humanorium conditum 2atgue digestum. Atlas - Pars 1, Tomus 2, (Tabulae) (in Latin). Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France).
Renan, Ernest (1881). Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum ab Academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum Humanorium conditum atgue digestum. Atlas - Pars 1, Tomus 2, Fasc 3 (Tabulae) (in Latin). Paris: Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France).
Renan, Ernest (1881). Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum ab Academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum Humanorium conditum atgue digestum. Atlas - Pars 1, Tomus 2, Fasc 2 (in Latin). Paris: Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France).
Renan, Ernest (1881). Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum ab Academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum Humanorium conditum atgue digestum. Atlas - Pars 1, Tomus 2, Fasc. 4 (in Latin). Paris: Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France).
Renan, Ernest (1881). Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum ab Academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum Humanorium conditum atgue digestum. Atlas - Pars 1, Tomus 2, Fasc 4 (Tabulae) (in Latin). Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France).
Renan, Ernest (1881). Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum ab Academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum Humanorium conditum atgue digestum. Atlas - Pars 2, Tomus 1 (in Latin). Paris: Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France).
Renan, Ernest (1881). Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum ab Academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum Humanorium conditum atgue digestum. Atlas - Pars 2, Tomus 1, (Tabulae) (in Latin). Paris: Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France).
Renan, Ernest (1881). Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum ab Academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum Humanorium conditum atgue digestum. Atlas - Pars 2, Tomus 2 (in Latin). Paris: Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France).
Renan, Ernest (1881). Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum ab Academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum Humanorium conditum atque digestum. Atlas - Pars 1, Tomus 2, Fasc 3 (in Latin). Paris: Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
Renan, Ernest (1881). Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum ab Academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum Humanorium conditum atgue digestum. Atlas - Pars 4, Tomus 1 (in Latin). Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France).
Renan, Ernest (1881). Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum ab Academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum Humanorium conditum atgue digestum. Atlas - Pars 4, Tomus 1, (Tabulae) (in Latin). Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France).
Renan, Ernest (1881). Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum ab Academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum Humanorium conditum atgue digestum. Atlas - Pars 4, Tomus 2, Fasc 1, (Tabulae) (in Latin). Paris: Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France).
Renan, Ernest (1881). Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum ab Academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum Humanorium conditum atgue digestum. Atlas - Pars 4, Tomus 2, Fasc 2, (Tabulae) (in Latin). Paris: Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France).
Renan, Ernest (1881). Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum ab Academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum Humanorium conditum atgue digestum. Atlas - Pars 4, Tomus 2, Fasc 3&4, (Tabulae) (in Latin). Paris: Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France).
Renan, Ernest (1881). Corpus inscriptionum semiticarum ab Academia Inscriptionum et Litterarum Humanorium conditum atgue digestum. Atlas - Pars 4, Tomus 3, Fasc 2, (Tabulae) (in Latin). Paris: Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France).

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Perrot, Georges; Chipiez, Charles (1885). History of Art in Phoenicia and Its Dependencies. Vol. 1. London: Chapman and Hall. ISBN 978-3-337-86626-6.
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UMR 7192[edit]

UMR 7192 "Near East - Caucasus: languages, archaeology, cultures" is a French CNRS mixed research unit specializing in ancient Near Eastern languages, archeology, and cultures.

Official UMR 7192 website

Websites[edit]

International Confederation “The Phoenicians’ Route”. "La Rotta dei Fenici" [The route of the Phoenicians]. La Rotta Dei Feinici. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
"Archaeology and History in Lebanon". www.ahlebanon.com. Archived from the original on 2021-01-15. Retrieved 2021-01-15.