Sexi - Phoenician Colony

Sexi, also known as Ex, was a Phoenician colony at the present-day site of Almuñécar on southeastern Spain's Mediterranean coast [1]. The Roman name for the place was Sexi Firmum Iulium [1]. Alternative transcriptions of the Phoenician name of the city in Latin include Secks, Seks, Sex, Eks, Seksi and Sexsi [1]. The ancient Phoenician settlement, whose earliest phases are unclear, was located southwest of the Solorius Mons [1]. 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 [1].