Phoenician memorial, spiral symbol, circle dot, solar disc

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