Talk:Phoenician arrowheads

Ruweiseh
Hi I have a puzzle too. Any idea where Ruweiseh might be?

I have two sources:
 * The original discoverer, Paul-Emile Guigues: "Au lieu dit Roueisseh, près de Nabatiyet el-fôqa, à gauche de la route Saïda-Gedeideh Marg'ayoun, qui traverse l’immense atelier préhistorique de Qal'at-es-saqîf, j’ai, au cours d'une mission d’exploration et de sondages archéologiques, procédé à une reconnaissance préliminaire de la nécropole sise à cet endroit."
 * The Louvre, where it currently sits: "Place of discovery Roueisse = Kafr ed-Djarra ; Roueisse = Kafr ed-Djarra (?)"

The first says it is near Nabatieh Fawka, the second that it is near to Kfar Jarra (another necropolis which Guigues worked on). Very confusing.

Onceinawhile (talk) 22:08, 22 July 2022 (UTC)


 * A very small scale map in The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol 3, Part 1 supports the Nabatieh Fawka location. I didn't find it explicitly on a map yet. Zerotalk 03:28, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
 * OK, the 1:20K map Nabatîyé (1943) shows the peak of Jebel Roasïsset el Halâl 1km west of Nabatieh Fawka and Tell Rouaiss 1km northwest. Guigues' comment "to the left of the Saïda-Gedeideh Marg'ayoun road" is little help without a direction of travel, but the tell is directly adjacent on the left of the road when traveling west. Zerotalk 03:56, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Thank you this is perfect. I have found the map and am adding it here. Onceinawhile (talk) 09:16, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

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Onceinawhile, I think Phoenician arrowhead inscriptions would reflect the content of the article better than Phoenician arrowheads, what do you think? That would also be consistent with Byblos clay cone inscriptions. TSventon (talk) 07:31, 7 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Hi TSventon, I don’t mind so if you or others feel strongly please change it. My thinking was as follows:
 * Per WP:CONCISE, I don’t think anyone will be confused
 * Phoenician often refers to language, so these arrowheads can be considered Phoenician in terms on what is written on them
 * Whilst the article is focused on inscribed examples, I would be happy for it to be expanded at some point to included non-inscribed examples. There is much less research on that though, as far as I know.
 * Onceinawhile (talk) 07:42, 9 August 2022 (UTC)