Sexi (Phoenician colony)
Phoenician colony
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Sexi (Punic: 𐤑𐤊𐤑, ṣkṣ),[1] also known as Ex,[2] was a Phoenician colony at the present-day site of Almuñécar on southeastern Spain's Mediterranean coast.
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| Sexi | |
|---|---|
Basins of a garum factory (Firmun Lulium Sexi). | |
  Location in the Province of Granada  Location in Andalusia  Location in Spain | |
| 36°44′N 3°41′W | |
| Location | Almuñécar, Spain |
| Region | Andalusia |
| Part of | Phoenician colonies |
| History | |
| Built | 3rd century BC |
| Abandoned | 2nd century BC |
The Roman name for the place was Sexi Firmum Iulium. Alternative transcriptions of the Phoenician name of the city in Latin include Secks, Seks, Sex, Eks, Seksi and Sexsi.[3]
History
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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 centuries BC 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.[4] The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World equates ancient Sexi with modern Almuñécar.[5]
