Fragmentary offering stand decoration of a man carrying a copper ingot, c. 1200-1150 BC

Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, 995.144.1

https://collections.rom.on.ca/objects/407123/

Come with us on a sea voyage – from the port cities of ancient Canaan, across the wine-dark seas. Our hold contains ingots of copper and tin, fine pottery vessels from Greece and the Islands, luxury goods from the land of the two rivers, and gold and ivory from Africa. 

Ports of call will include Cyprus, Turkey, Egypt, Italy, and Spain. Maybe then we will join a convoy sailing through the Pillars of Hercules and bound for a strange, misty island far to the north, where the inhabitants have an abundance of tin to trade for trinkets.

We are journeying, of course, with the Phoenicians – a Bronze Age people whose cities thrived along the coast of the Levant. Their presence and influence has been discovered all over the Mediterranean, and we will find out about their cities, their journeys, and the things they sold.

RJW F2531 Online (via Zoom)

A 5-hour short course, delivered via 2 x 2½-hour sessions on consecutive Mondays (Monday 17 & Monday 24 November).

£40 (individual registration); £72 (for two people sharing one screen).