Phoenician memorial, solar disc, six-point sun

Hong Kong Museum of History, An Age of Luxury (Collection of the British Museum)

Solar disc on a Phoenician memorial

A Phoenician memorial

This fine marble stele, or grave marker, is dedicated to the memory of a Phoenician who lived in Athens. He came from Sidon and was one of many Phoenician traders and craftsmen who migrated from their homeland on the eastern Mediterranean coast to settle across the Mediterranean and North Africa. They brought with them their own alphabetic system of writing, which formed the basis of the Greek, Etruscan and Roman alphabets from which many modern European writing systems derive.

Grave monument with bilingual Greek and Phoenician inscription

Athens, Greece

400-300 BC

Marble

Supplementary images:

Solar disc on a Phoenician memorial

Taken on Monday 21st of May 2018

Device: Motorola

Model: XT1585

Genre: 400 - 300 BC

Source: Hong Kong

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