Phoenician numbers
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Phoenician numbers
Elena Tatay
Índice
History
Fenicio Town
Economy
Location
Numbers
Culture
Phoenician art
Phoenician literature
Alphabet
HISTORY
Populated since the beginning of the III millennium a. C. by Canaanite semitas, the historical Phenicia extended over a narrow coastal strip of 40 km, from Mount Carmel to Ugarit.
TOWN
The Phoenician culture is an ancient civilization that did not leave firm physical traces of its existence.
ECONOMY
- Agriculture and logging
- Phoenician wine
- Industry
- Commerce and navigation
LOCATION
Its geographical place in history is the current Lebanese Republic
CULTURE
The Phoenician people contributed to create an important link between Mediterranean civilizations and even more among the artistic forms of the ancient world, by imitation, fusion and diffusion of them, although it is not considered as the original creator of a great own culture.
PHOETICIAN ART
Phoetician art is the historiography denomination of the art of the phoetician civilitation .
It consist in differentiated symbols for the values of 1,2,3,10,20 and 100. THe sign of the 1 was a simple trace, the rest of numbers until 9 they were formed throught combinations of the sum of the first 3 values, the 10 symbol was an horizontal line, while the 20 symbol can be appeared with different variants where was a type of Z or the combination of the 10 symbols . Cuantities higher grouping the cuantitie correspondent of symbols of 10 and 20. There was various variants about the symbol of 100 and this can be combinated with the number procedent with value multiplicatory
SYMBOL SYSTEM
IThe letters of the alfabetic phoenician could be used as numerals althought there is only evidence of this use in orther to indicate the figures from 1 to 10 in Alexandrian coins of Sidon
LETTERS SYSTEM
NUMBERS
PROBLEMS
1-Ofelia read 13 pages of her book. If yesterday read 28 pages. How many pages has she read in total?