>search for Phoenician art
>get Mesopotamian/Neo-Assyrian instead
Why didn't the Phoenicians make pictures?
"Phoenicians" didn't really have a culture, it was just a clusterfuck of Mesopotamian and Greek shit.
They were basically middlemen who just mooched off of other cultures without making anything new. Except their alphabet.
That said, they weren't bad artisans. The Assyrians commissioned ivory carvings from them, now known as the Nimrud Ivories. I'll post a few.
Also there's pic related, the a Phoenician sarcophagus inscribed with the oldest example of Phoenician script, from about 1000 BC.
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Also there's this thing from a colony in Iberia.
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The Carthaginians also had these mask things, but they're not very good.
That's basically everything I have.
>>283705
The Greeks are the biggest moochers in all of history.
>>283751
this is pretty ignorant but you're hopefully memeing.
>>283751
At first maybe, but they improved on what they borrowed. They were too isolated from Mesopotamia and Egypt to just adopt their entire civilization, so they ended up building a completely new kind of civilization with both Mesopotamian and Egyptian influence. Phoenicians just copied and left it at that.
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They inherited the legacy of the 3000 year old Egyptian Kingdom, where's it now?
They inherited the legacy of Eastern Christianity, where's it now?
They inherited the legacy of the Roman Empire, where's it now?
They even converted to Islam and inherited the Caliphate through the Ottomans, where's it now?
Greeks are the pallbearers of all dead civilizations. Everything they touch is doomed to death.
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Too busy making that do$h son
>>283773
>3000 year old Egyptian Kingdom
it had been in nothing but decline since the end of the bronze age. if anything the greeks made it relevant again
>Eastern Christianity
looks like it's still standing strong despite centuries of setbacks
>Roman Empire
lasted almost a thousand years after the western half's decline
>inherited the Caliphate through the Ottomans
what
>>283647
Things got weird when the Greco-Phoenician relationship reversed and the former started influencing the latter.
Like what the hell is up with these sarcophagi? There are a shitload of them in every museum.
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I think he's talking about Constantinople as a Greek civilization
>>283868
No I said the Greeks were Pallbearers of civilization.
>>283773
Hey I remember you from /pol/, 'sup Mehmet
>>283647
Phoenicians were pretty much multi-culturalist weren't they? Disgusting pinkos
>>283647
we have plenty of that here in Sardinia but it's mostly statues of a fat dwarf god, creepy masks and retarded play doo dolls
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Are Nuragic Phoenicians? Like heavily influenced related to?
>Why didn't the Phoenicians make pictures?
Too busy making money.
>>283647
What part of Islam destroyed all non-islamic relics ISIS style do you not understand?
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Nuragics are natives who later became phoenicized (culturally at least).
And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot. -Isaiah 23:15
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...what?
