Palermo, Sicily · c. 7th c. BCE
Panormus
Ziz
The all-harbor
Ziz. Then Panormus. The north door of Sicily, while Motya held the lagoon in the west. A coffin from Cannita still speaks Sidon’s shape.
A coffin from Panormus’s coast
Anthropoid marble sarcophagus · Pizzo Cannita · 5th c. BCE
Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonio Salinas, Palermo
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Gad Yaton: Sidon’s shape in a Sicilian grave. Ziz, then Panormus. The north door of the island Motya held the west of.
Ziz
The Phoenician name is Ziz — a flower, a harbor. Greeks said Panormus, all-harbor. It sat on the north of Sicily as Motya sat on the west: a Tyrian door facing the sea-road to Sardinia and Africa.
We do not clone Soluntum and every hill. Motya is the lagoon. Panormus is the north. The island had two enough doors.
The Cannita coffin
The photograph is an anthropoid sarcophagus from Pizzo Cannita, inland of Palermo — Sidon’s shape, a fifth-century grave, now in the Salinas museum. The dead of this coast were dressed as the dead of Sidon.
Rome took the harbor and kept the name as Palermo. The coffin did not become Roman.
Gad Yaton: one more Sicilian sister. Not ten dots. A harbor and a coffin are enough.