Title: Dedicatory Foreword: Herbert E. Schmitz, 1901-1960
Abstract: Phoenician is one of the Canaanite languages within the Northwest Semitic branch of Central Semitic, which is itself one of the three main branches of West Semitic. The extension of Phoenician that originated in the colony of Carthage in North Africa is called Punic. Phoenician and Punic texts date from ca. 1000 b.c. to the Latino–Punic inscriptions of the 4th–5th centuries a.d., and they are found all over the Mediterranean and into the Atlantic side of Spain and North Africa. Phoenician and Punic texts are written right to left in a linear alphabet that is the precursor of the Greek and Latin alphabets, and they appear in several genres: funerary, royal, dedicatory, and votive, the most numerous of which are the Punic child sacrifice texts from North Africa.
Publication Year: 1961
Publication Date: 1961-01-01
Language: en
Type: review
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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