Sexi (Punic: 𐤑𐤊𐤑, ṢKṢ),[1] also known as Ex,[2] was a Phoenician colony at the present-day site of Almuñécar on southeastern Spain's Mediterranean coast.
Location | Almuñécar, Spain |
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Region | Andalusia |
Coordinates | 36°44′N 3°41′W / 36.733°N 3.683°W |
Part of | Phoenician colonies |
History | |
Founded | 3rd century BC |
Abandoned | 2nd century BC |
The Roman name for the place was Sexi Firmum Iulium. Alternative transcriptions of the Phoenician name of the city in Latin include Secks, Seks, Sex, Eks, Seksi and Sexsi.[3]
History
editThe ancient Phoenician settlement, whose earliest phases are unclear, was located southwest of the Solorius Mons (the modern Sierra Nevada mountain range). From the 3rd-2nd centuries BC it issued a sizable corpus of coinage, with many coins depicting the Phoenico-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.[4] The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World equates ancient Sexi with modern Almuñécar.[5]
References
editCitations
edit- ^ Huss (1985), p. 560.
- ^ Aubet, María Eugenia (2005). Osborne, Robin; Cunliffe, Barry (eds.). Mediterranean Urbanization 800-600 BC. Oxford, UK: OUP. p. 194. ISBN 9780197263259.
- ^ Ruiz Fernández, Antonio (1979). Almuñécar: en la antigüedad fenicia o 'Ex en el Ambito de Tartessos (in Spanish). Granada, Spain: Excma. Diputación Provincial, Instituto Provincial de Estudios y Promoción Cultural. p. 43. ISBN 9788450031171.
- ^ Meadow, A.; Purefoy, P. (2002). SNG BM Spain-British Museum 2: Spain; London, The British Museum Press. No.'s 404-425.
- ^ Richard J. A. Talbert et al (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World Princeton University Press. Map 27, B5.
Bibliography
edit- Huss, Werner (1985), Geschichte der Karthager, Munich: C.H. Beck, ISBN 9783406306549. (in German)