"When He Drove out Yrirachan": A Phoenician (Punic) Poem, ca. A. D. 350
Roman North Africa remained Phoenician in language well into the Common Era. Nor was the local culture bereft of its literary heritage. Classical Canaanite poetry continued to be cultivated in the province of Tripolitania as late as the fourth century A. D. as evidenced by a surviving three-verse ly...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The University of Chicago Press
1994
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Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 1994, Volume: 294, Pages: 69-82 |
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| Summary: | Roman North Africa remained Phoenician in language well into the Common Era. Nor was the local culture bereft of its literary heritage. Classical Canaanite poetry continued to be cultivated in the province of Tripolitania as late as the fourth century A. D. as evidenced by a surviving three-verse lyric poem by the soldier-poet Iulius Nasif, written in Latin letters and inscribed on his tombstone in the necropolis at Bir el-Dréder. In form and style, the composition is essentially identical to the ancient lyric poetry of Israel. It is unique, however, in being the only poem of the Canaanite literary tradition to come down to us fully vocalized and textually intact from the time of composition. Notable also is the metrical (rhythmic) composition of the poem. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8062 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American Schools of Oriental Research, Bulletin of ASOR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1357154 |