Elementi vegetali sulle stele fenicie e puniche Articles uri icon

publication date

  • May 2024

start page

  • 155

end page

  • 170

issue

  • 28

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 2240-1636

abstract

  • This paper aims to examine the plant iconographies on Phoenician and Punic funerary and votive stelae. Trees, fruit and flowers are widely attested in the repertoire examined both with symbolic functions and as decorative elements intended to set the scene

keywords

  • phoenicians; stelae; trees; fruits; flowers