A Perilous Sailing and a Lion: Comparative Evidence for a Phoenician Afterlife Motif

This essay introduces new evidence for an eschatological Phoenician motif that alludes to a final sailing and its perils, represented by a monstrous lion attacking or sinking a boat. The lion-and-boat motif was, so far, only documented in a Phoenician funerary stela from late classical Athens, the A...

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Authors: López-Ruiz, C. (Author) ; González, E. Rodríguez (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Journal of ancient Near Eastern religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 224-257
Further subjects:B lion in iconography
B Ships
B Afterlife
B Phoenician religion
B Amulets
B ancient Iberia
B Tunisia
B Tartessos
B Astarte / Ashtart
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