Sexi (Phoenician colony) explained

Sexi
Map Type:	Spain Province of Granada#Spain Andalusia#Spain
Coordinates:	36.7333°N -44°W
Part Of:	Phoenician colonies
Built:	3rd century BC
Abandoned:	2nd century BC

Sexi (‬‬‬,), also known as Ex,^[1] was a Phoenician colony at the present-day site of Almuñécar on southeastern Spain's Mediterranean coast.

The Roman name for the place was . Alternative transcriptions of the Phoenician name of the city in Latin include and .^[2]

History

The ancient Phoenician settlement, whose earliest phases are unclear, was located southwest of the Solorius Mons (the modern Sierra Nevada mountain range). From the 3rd-2nd centuriesBC it issued a sizable corpus of coinage, with many coins depicting the Phoenico-Punic god Melqart on the obverse and one or two fish on the reverse, possibly alluding to the abundance of the sea and also a principal product of the area.^[3] The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World equates ancient Sexi with modern Almuñécar.^[4]

References

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Notes and References

1. Book: Aubet . María Eugenia . María Eugenia Aubet. Osborne . Robin . Cunliffe . Barry . Mediterranean Urbanization 800-600 BC . 2005 . OUP . Oxford, UK . 9780197263259 . 194 . en.
2. Book: Ruiz Fernández . Antonio . Almuñécar: en la antigüedad fenicia o 'Ex en el Ambito de Tartessos . 1979 . Excma. Diputación Provincial, Instituto Provincial de Estudios y Promoción Cultural . Granada, Spain . 43 . 9788450031171 . es.
3. Meadow, A.; Purefoy, P. (2002). SNG BM Spain-British Museum 2: Spain; London, The British Museum Press. No.'s 404-425.
4. Richard J. A. Talbert et al (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World Princeton University Press. Map 27, B5.