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LIVING AND DOCUMENTED CULTURE · 04

Objects with several visual homelands

Artisans combined Egyptian, Levantine and Mediterranean motifs in ivories, metals, glass and amulets.

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DECLARED VISUAL RECONSTRUCTION · AI-GENERATED IMAGE · TRACEKEEPERS

Generated reconstruction · Declared visual hypothesis

Declared visual reconstruction; not a photograph of the original nor documentary evidence.

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DECLARED VISUAL RECONSTRUCTION · AI-GENERATED IMAGE · TRACEKEEPERS

Generated reconstruction · Declared visual hypothesis

Declared visual reconstruction; not a photograph of the original nor documentary evidence.

History and context

The hybrid style is evidence of agency and market, not lack of identity.

Evidence and interpretation

Synthesis based on UNESCO · Byblos; UNESCO · Tyre; The Met · Phoenicians. The comparison serves to formulate questions, not to fill gaps in the record with certainties.

Catalogue facts

Civilisation or trajectory
Phoenicia
Scope
Visual and Material Arts
Main area
Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, and other cities on the Levantine coast, especially in present-day Lebanon.

A closer look

About 1 min to read · 1 section. Further reading and sources · free access. Editorial review recorded: .

A luxury surface preserves the workshop's decisions

The examination of the Met's silver bowl 74.51.4557 reconstructed a precise sequence: forming the sheet by hammer, marking the decoration lines and then raising the motifs by repoussé. The metal hardened by the blows required reheating to recover its deformability. Elizabeth Hendrix emphasised that these techniques alone do not allow deciding whether the artisan was Cypriot or Phoenician. Here the interest lies in the observable operations: a light-looking cup depended on controlling heat, thickness and tools, knowledge that could circulate alongside the silver.

Location and territory

Physical world map with routes of human evolutionPresent-day world coastline from Natural Earth in an equirectangular projection. The overlaid markers let you explore each milestone.Map base: Natural Earth 1:110m · public domain · present-day reference coastline

REGIONAL AREA

Levantine cities; the routes and colonies do not equate to a state frontierLevantine cities; the routes and colonies do not equate to a state frontier. The footprint indicates the orientative centre of the area, not a frontier nor an exact point.

Sources and references

Consult the sources of this cultural synthesis

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