The “Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Phoenician Culture” (EDPC) is a research project originally promoted by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma, in synergy with the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid) and the University of Tübingen: Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät, Abt. Biblische Einleitung und Zeitgeschichte from 2015 to 2019 and, from 2020 onwards, Philosophische Fakultät, Institut für Klassische Archäologie, now main headquarters of the Scientific Editorial Board.

The aim of the project is to provide complete and up-to-date information on Phoenician and Punic culture. Current knowledge on Phoenicians and Carthaginians (with close attention to their various interactions with other cultures) will be presented as a sequence of themed volumes in the form of an encyclopaedia with the structure of a dictionary, dealing respectively with history, religion, language and written sources, socio-economic life, and archaeological sites of both the Levant and the Central and Western Mediterranean. The work is composed of more than 2000 entries, written by ca 200 contributors from 20 different countries,

As part of a collection, each volume should be considered as belonging to a set: in one sense independent but at the same time inseparable from the others both in respect of the amount of information included and the network of cross-references linking the various lemmata. Each entry is written by one or more specialists in order to combine methodology and expertise. Thanks to an internal cross-reference system, all information is presented analytically. The main objective is to provide students and scholars with a reliable tool, at the highest level in terms of content and methodology, which includes a basic bibliography for each lemma.

A website which contains a number of sample entries in various languages (in an earlier version), is available for the general public. For the time being, the “Entries (texts)” section is reserved for the collaborators of the Project. Permission to consult this section will be given by the Scientific Editorial Board upon request.

Already published 

_{Chief Editors
Paolo Xella, Roma/Tübingen
José Ángel Zamora López, Madrid
Herbert Niehr, Tübingen}

_{Associate Editors
Andrea Ercolani, Valentina Melchiorri, Wilfred G. E. Watson}

_{Editorial Scientific Board
Vincenzo Bellelli, Francesca Guarneri, Dagmar Kühn, Umberto Livadiotti, Giuseppe Minunno, Renata Schiavo
In collaboration with:
Laura Attisani, Marta Lotta, Ilaria Orri, Hanni Töpfer Schön}

_{International Advisory Scientific Board
Maria Giulia Amadasi Guzzo (Roma), Ana Margarida Arruda (Lisboa), María Eugenia Aubet (Barcelona), María Belén Deamos (Sevilla), Sandro Filippo Bondì (Viterbo), 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)}

_{Linguistic Advisors
Brigitte Pargny, Wilfred G. E. Watson}

_{Graphics and Information Technology Expert
Marcello Bellisario (Archeologia Progettazione e Servizi S.r.l., Roma)
Other collaborations:
Giulio Credazzi (Roma), IT Expert
Roberto Pistoso (Verona), Editorial and Management Support}