The variety of crafts techniques, applied knowledge and ritual practices: the civilization of the Phoenicians through analysis of the remains of their material culture in Italy.
Masks, votive statuettes, lamps, everyday objects and religious artifacts reflecting a profound spiritual impulse, creations of craftsmen, amphorae, ewers, precious, refined vases in glass paste, evocative remnants of a vanished world. The catalogue of the exhibition held in Rome in 1999 documents the civilization of the Phoenicians through analysis of the most representative remains of Phoenician material culture existing in Italy: artifacts from Sicily and Sardinia, precious objects conserved at the Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome, and a numismatic section of the medals collection of the National Museum in Rome. Critical essays and a fine selection of images offer an original profile of the Punic world, shedding light on the identity of a culture that makes constant reference to Carthage, not only in political terms.