The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Phoenician Culture (EDPC) Project is part of the research line ‘Societies and Cultures of the Ancient Mediterranean’ and was originally promoted by the CNR with the participation of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas – CSIC (Madrid) and the University of Tübingen (Institut für Biblische Einleitung und Zeitgeschichte and, currently, the Institut für Klassische Archäologie).

The project aims to produce a multi-volume encyclopaedic dictionary to offer an up-to-date summary of Phoenician and Punic culture in its entirety. The volumes, organised thematically, comprise over 2000 entries, and involve the collaboration of over 200 authors.

Scientific Direction

Chief editors: Paolo Xella, José Ángel Zamora López, Herbert Niehr

Associate Editors: Andrea Ercolani, Valentina Melchiorri, Wilfred G. E. Watson

Scientific Advisory Board

Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo (Roma), Ana Margarida Arruda (Lisboa), María Eugenia Aubet (Barcelona), María Belén Deamos (Sevilla), Sandro Filippo Bondì (Roma), Annie Caubet (Paris), Izak Cornelius (Stellenbosch), Roald Docter (Gent), Mhamed Hassine Fantar (Tunis), Nota Kourou (Athens), Lorenza Ilia Manfredi (Roma), María Cruz Marín Ceballos (Sevilla), Valérie Matoïan (Lyon-Paris), Cristina E. Murer (Tübingen), Josephine C. Quinn (Oxford), Wolfgang Röllig✝︎ (Tübingen), Hélène Sader (Beirut), Thomas Schäfer (Tübingen), Paola Santoro (Roma), Francesca Spatafora (Palermo), Peter van Dommelen (Providence), Nicholas Vella (La Valletta), Marguerite Yon (Lyon-Paris)

Work Plan

I. – HISTORICAL CHARACTERS

ed. by A. Ercolani & P. Xella (in collaboration with Umberto Livadiotti & Valentina Melchiorri)

Link to the volume

II.1. – RELIGION. DEITIES AND MYTHICAL CHARACTERS

ed. by Herbert Niehr & Paolo Xella (in collaboration with Dagmar Kühn, Valentina Melchiorri & Giuseppe Minunno)

Link to the volume

In progress:

II.2. – RELIGION. CULT AND RITUAL

ed. by Valentina Melchiorri & Paolo Xella (in collaboration with Giuseppe Minunno)

III.1. – WRITTEN SOURCES. PHOENICIAN AND OTHER ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN LANGUAGES

ed. by Maria Giulia Amadasi, Wilfred G.E. Watson, Paolo Xella & José Ángel Zamora López

III.2.- WRITTEN SOURCES. GREEK AND LATIN

ed. by Andrea Ercolani & Umberto Livadiotti (in collaboration with Giuseppe Minunno)

IV. – SOCIETY AND ECONOMY

V. – ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES

VI. – GENERAL INDEXES, ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA

More about the history and objectives of the project at the following link: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/fakultaeten/philosophische-fakultaet/fachbereiche/altertums-und-kunstwissenschaften/institut-fuer-klassische-archaeologie/forschung/laufende-projekte/encyclopaedic-dictionary-of-phoenician-culture-edpc/