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Document Details : Title: Phoenician or Greek Subtitle: Is there a Reasonable Way out of the Al Mina Debate? Author(s): NIEMEYER, H.G. Journal: Ancient West & East Volume: 3 Issue: 1 Date: 2004 Pages: 38-50 DOI: 10.2143/AWE.3.1.3291936 Abstract : The controversy about the nature of Al Mina - whether it was the earliest Euboean colonial outpost in the East or a Syrian port-settlement (with Phoenician and Greek enclaves) - is re-examined in view of its bearing on the origin and development of the Orientalising horizon in the (eastern and western) Mediterranean. Since the site was discovered and in part excavated (1936/37), the Greek sherds found there have been used in European and especially in German Classical scholarship to demonstrate that it was the Greeks who took the lead in that movement of greatest importance to the ancient world and the cultural appearance of the Occident. The author advocates a slightly more differentiated approach to this problem. |
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