Arwad, Phoenician city of the North.
| N° d'inventaire | 19724 |
| Format | 16 x 24 |
| Détails | 254 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Hanging, 2015 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | |
Supplement No. 19 to Transeuphrates. Arwad, named "RWD" in Phoenician, URU/KUR a-ru-a-da/a-ru-ad-da in Akkadian and Arados in Greek, was the great Phoenician city of the north, located on an island off the coast of Syria. Its history has never been written, unlike that of other great Phoenician cities such as Tyre, Sidon and Byblos. The history of the city during the Phoenician period, that is to say between 1200 and 333 BCE, is difficult to write for various reasons, notably because the sources are incomplete, scattered and very heterogeneous. After an initial period of independence, Arwad successively experienced Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian domination, about which we are best informed, notably thanks to numismatics. Despite several similarities with other Phoenician cities, not to mention its participation in the founding of the Federal Council of Tripolis, it occupied a special place within Phoenicia. Culturally close to northern Syria, it maintained relations with southern Turkey and Cyprus rather than with the southern Phoenician cities and other southern states. In conflicts between the great powers, it was drawn into the orbit of the northern states, from the Hittites to the Seleucids, both in the second and first millennia BC.
Supplement No. 19 to Transeuphrates. Arwad, named "RWD" in Phoenician, URU/KUR a-ru-a-da/a-ru-ad-da in Akkadian and Arados in Greek, was the great Phoenician city of the north, located on an island off the coast of Syria. Its history has never been written, unlike that of other great Phoenician cities such as Tyre, Sidon and Byblos. The history of the city during the Phoenician period, that is to say between 1200 and 333 BCE, is difficult to write for various reasons, notably because the sources are incomplete, scattered and very heterogeneous. After an initial period of independence, Arwad successively experienced Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian domination, about which we are best informed, notably thanks to numismatics. Despite several similarities with other Phoenician cities, not to mention its participation in the founding of the Federal Council of Tripolis, it occupied a special place within Phoenicia. Culturally close to northern Syria, it maintained relations with southern Turkey and Cyprus rather than with the southern Phoenician cities and other southern states. In conflicts between the great powers, it was drawn into the orbit of the northern states, from the Hittites to the Seleucids, both in the second and first millennia BC.