The civilization of the Phoenicians , inventors of the alphabet, who managed to expand from Lebanon and found colonies along the shores of the Mediterranean in North Africa and Sardinia up to the Iberian peninsula. A topic at the center of the next meeting scheduled for Wednesday 5 April at 5 pm at the Antiquarium Turritano national archaeological museum which will host Rosana Pla Orquìn , archaeologist of the SAIC - Italian Archeology School of Carthage, with a speech entitled "Phoenician and Punic women in the Mediterranean of the 1st millennium BC: archaeological and epigraphic sources" .
There are not many sources that allow us to reconstruct in detail the condition of women in the Phoenician world. The news reported by the classics or in the Bible provide little information on daily life and these are often affected by prejudices.
The Old Testament and, subsequently, the Greek-Latin authors tell the stories and lives of particularly important women, queens or ladies of the high aristocracy.
There are four important female figures: the princess Jezebel, Elissa, better known as Dido, or the legendary founder and first queen of Carthage, sister of Pygmalion, king of Tyre, the Carthaginian Sophonisba and the wife of Hasdrubal, last leader of the Carthaginian armies in 146 BC
The event is part of the cycle of conferences "The thousand and one museum" organized by the Regional Directorate of Museums of Sardinia with the University of Sassari, curated by Luana Toniolo and the teacher Paola Ruggeri.
