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The restoration

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Sanchuniathon's Phœnician History

Translated from the fragments Philo of Byblos gave to Eusebius. Restored from the records of the cities. Continued through the kings and colonies. The stones privileged over the foreign books.

Restored by Gad Yaton · in honour of Sakkun-yaton of Berytus

Front matter

  1. Preface

    The stones, not the victors.

  2. A note on the narration

    Who speaks in these pages.

  3. Notice of Sanchuniathon

    From Porphyry, in Eusebius.

  4. Philo of Byblos

    Preface to the Greek translation.

Book I · Cosmology and generations

  1. The cosmology

    The beginning of all things.

  2. The generations

    From wind and night to the letters.

  3. Of the mystical sacrifice

    The custom of the ancients.

  4. Of the serpent

    What Taautus first attributed.

Book II · Cities and colonies

  1. Preface to Book II

    The histories twice stolen.

  2. The antiquity of the cities

    Civilisation did not begin upriver.

  3. The kings of Tyre

    Menander’s chronicle, and Hiram.

  4. Ithobaal and the house of Omri

    The Jezebel slander corrected.

  5. Byblus, Berytus, and Sidon

    Inscriptions and the Amarna letters.

  6. The alphabet and the philosophers

    Twenty-two letters, and the lineage that followed.

  7. Ships, stars, and colonies

    Lords of the sea.

  8. Purple, glass, and metal

    The industrial arts.

  9. The cities and Assyria

    Tribute, fleet, and autonomy.

  10. The long siege of Tyre

    Nebuchadnezzar could not break the rock.

  11. Under Persia

    Ships for autonomy; Sidon’s golden age.

  12. The religion of the Phœnicians

    False accusations of the Greeks and Hebrews.

  13. Carthage after Tyre

    The last city against Rome.

  14. What we gave the world

    And what the world still owes.

Close

  1. Meditation of Gad Yaton

    On retribution, and the arc of justice.

  2. Jayeen ya arz el jabal

    An offering to the cedars.

Apparatus

  1. Genealogical and chronological tables

    Kings, gods, and years.

  2. Principal sources

    Inscriptions, annals, excavations.

  3. Glossary

    Terms, deities, and key concepts.