Phoenicia
The coast of the eastern Mediterranean whose cities, such as Tyre, were famous for seafaring and trade. Xenophon's Ischomachus admired the order of a great Phoenician ship.
Today: coast of Lebanon
A young wife learns to run the house
Xenophon, Oeconomicus (Household Management), chapters 7–9 (about 360 BCE), in the edition of E. C. Marchant (Oxford, 1900) · about 360 BCE; the exact year is not known
καλλίστην δέ ποτε καὶ ἀκριβεστάτην ἔδοξα σκευῶν τάξιν ἰδεῖν, ὦ Σώκρατες, εἰσβὰς ἐπὶ θέαν εἰς τὸ μέγα πλοῖον τὸ Φοινικικόν. πλεῖστα γὰρ σκεύη ἐν σμικροτάτῳ ἀγγείῳ διακεχωρισμένα ἐθεασάμην.
And once I thought I saw the finest and most exact arrangement of equipment, Socrates, when I went aboard to look at the great Phoenician ship. For I saw very many pieces of equipment in a very small vessel, each set apart from the others.