Estelas en el aire, palabras sobre el mar: Wenamón y el monarca fenicio

Abstract

Egyptian culture has been often overlooked as an operative element within the broader phenomenon of the dissemination of phoenician culture in the Mediterranean. The Report of Wenamun contains a unique dialogue between an Egyptian and a Phoenician king in respect of the design and fabrication of a stela for the second. This interchange highlights several different aspects pertaining to the functionality of a stela, particularly its direct connection with the essence of royalty as an object whose fabrication is reserved to it. This article throws some light onto the operative concept of a stela as a material proof of the royal action as well as the circumstances of its design and fabrication.