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(İng. Canaanite)

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Furthermore, unlike their Canaanite, Egyptian, Assyrian and Persian counterparts, Phoenician monarchs did not, as far as is known, recount their exploits and political endeavours in monumental commemorative inscriptions or reliefs.

Comparisons between the political activities of Phoenician kings and those undertaken by their Near Eastern counterparts reveal little difference in the patterns of thought and behaviour and thus there can be little doubt that Phoenician royal ideologies were inspired and influenced by Mesopotamian and Canaanite traditions.

The earliest known examples of proto-Canaanite are two graffiti found near Luxor in Egypt which date to around 1800 (a few slightly later examples have also recently been recovered from Serabit al-Khadem in the Sinai Peninsula).