Sexi (Phoenician colony)

Template:Infobox ancient site Sexi (Template:Langx, Template:Sc),Template:Sfnp also known as Ex,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> was a Phoenician colony at the present-day site of Almuñécar on southeastern Spain's Mediterranean coast.

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History

A Punic coin of Sexi

The ancient Phoenician settlement, whose earliest phases are unclear, was located southwest of the Solorius Mons (the modern Sierra Nevada mountain range). From the 3rd-2nd centuriesTemplate:NbspBC it issued a sizable corpus of coinage, with many coins depicting the Phoenico-Punic god Melqart on the obverse and one or two fish on the reverse, possibly alluding to the abundance of the sea and also a principal product of the area.<ref>Meadow, A.; Purefoy, P. (2002). SNG BM Spain-British Museum 2: Spain; London, The British Museum Press. No.'s 404-425.</ref> The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World equates ancient Sexi with modern Almuñécar.<ref>Richard J. A. Talbert et al (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World Princeton University Press. Map 27, B5.</ref>

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