Before revision: Phoenician In the various independent Phoenician city-states—on the coasts of present-day Lebanon and western Syria, the Punic colonies on the Mediterranean Sea, and in Carthage itself— a shofeṭ (Punic: šūfeṭ ) was a non-royal magistrate granted control over a city-state, sometimes functioning much in the same way as a Roman consul ; for .
After revision: Phoenician In the various independent Phoenician city-states—on the coasts of present-day Lebanon and western Syria, the Punic colonies on the Mediterranean Sea, and in Carthage itself— the šūfeṭ , called in Latin a sūfes, was a non-royal magistrate granted control over a city-state, sometimes functioning much in the same way as a Roman consul .