Where is the art and literature of the Phoenicians?
It seems like their art never surpassed the archaic level, while Greeks had classical art, Hellenistic art and various high culture.
Phoenicians had city states and colonies just like Greeks, intensive contact with Greek traders, were literate, and very rich.
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That feel when no Punic GF
This is actually good art.
[spoiler]She is from a Greek colony in Spain that was conquered by Carthage.
Most of Phoenician art left is from their western colonies in Iberia, Sicily and Sardinia
This type of grinning mask was really common in the Punic world (N.Africa, Sardini and Sicily)
Well Classical Greek art was a natural evolution of their worldview 'man is the measure of all things'.
It wouldn't have been expected for the Phoenicians to develop anything like the Polykleitan canon when their artistic expression reflected a less anthropomorphic understanding of the world.
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Tophets were cemeteries for young and stillborn children, the stelae found in these cemeteries often depicted human figures and deities such as the goddess Tanit, there were schools of traveling artisans sculpting these stone stelae.
Although the name "tophets" comes from the bible, to indicated "high places" were Semite sacrificed their younglings, we don't know exactly what name Phoenicians used for these places, so the name tophet is arbitrary and more of a guess.
These "Tophets" seem to be distinctively Punic, not one of them was found in Phoenicia, they are only found in the Central Mediterranean: with 6 sites in Sardinia, two in North Africa, two in Sicily and one in Malta, for some reason they are completely lacking in Iberia.
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Where are the rubbing hands?
That is some nice bling.
>hoenicians had city states and colonies just like Greeks, intensive contact with Greek traders, were literate, and very rich.
Phoenicians were Traders, Greeks were Pirates, hence the Greeks evolved their ships to attack and became the dominant sea power around the time of the Persian invasions.
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It got pretty shitty proportions, really.
>his nose isn't as big as his hand
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That slight shift in feet, can we call this classical?
Are you dumb?
The "slight shift" in the feet is a conventional feature in Egyptian statuary since 2600 bc and was typical in archaic Greek statuary (600-500 bc), which came straight from the Egyptian one, it's the very opposite of Classical sculpture, if anything it's the most obvious signal that it's not classical.
The Phoenician example you've posted is clearly archaic and influenced by Egypt, weirdly enough Phoenicians didn't develop statuary until 700-650 bc despite being under Egypt control for several centuries since 1400 bc
Phoenician sculpture from Lebanon, Sicily and Sardinia
We know they sacrificed children because the bones near those alters have all the signs of it
Lions from Sulky (Sardinia) made with vulcanic tuff, dating to the Phoenician period, they were originally position in the city gates
Some probably were, others were just stillborn or died prematurely
Golden jewel from Tharros, 7-6th century bc, the Phoenician cities of Tharros (Sadinia) and Gadir (Spain) were the main producers of jewelry in the Mediterranean, sadly the majority of the jewels from Tharros were sacked shortly after the first excavations of the city in the 19th century by locals