Thank you BB, ADM, Renikart and Kostis for your nice replies.
King Ozmilk, written: 'Zmlk' in Phoenician and called Azemilcus by Roman writers, was King of the city state of Tyre from 347 until 332 BC. He was away with the Persian fleet at the time Alexander arrived at the city.
Prominent among the city’s landmarks was the royal palace compound with its kingly residence, archives, and treasuries. According to Arrian, it was located in the south-western sector of the city, like the temples.
Ozmilks son and the city governors tried to evacuate the Royal family together with the Tyrian woman, children and old men in ships, all the way to Carthago which was originally a colony of Tyre. This mass scale evacuation did not succeed completely when Alexander started his siege.
Two of Ozmilks wives are transported to the harbour together with their most precious belongings.
Camels were not a common thing to see in the fortified town because being a small island. Common transport was by donkeys or sedan chair.
Phoenician clothing of the 4th c.BC keeps hidden in mist. The Hellenizing Greek influence of fashion already started before the Macedonian conquest but on the other hand: the Alexander Sarcofagus shows the Sidonian King from the neighboring Phoenician city state of Sidon, together with Alexander both dressed up in typical Persian fashion.
So both Greek and Persian dress are options for the upper class Tyrians.
There are no traces left of Tyres palace, nor of any other royal Phoenician residence. I based my design on those of Israelian palaces of Kings David and Salomo.
These palaces were designed and build by Phoenicians. King Hiram 1 who was king of Tyre from 980 to 947 BC was a contemporary of David and Salomo and gave construction assistance by building Biblical Jerusalem. These Israelian palaces are much better recorded than the Phoenician ones so give the best indication to us today for what it may have looked like.
My palace is, for gaming reasons, a simplification of such buildings.
There is a huge gap between the 10th and 4th century BC. But Phoenician architecture did not change much in that time. I know about two standing Phoenician/Punic structures of which one is at Malta, called the Zurrieq Tower and is probably part of an early 6th century temple or tomb.
The other one is a Phoenician temple in Tyre dating back to the 5th century BC.
All of these buildings, temples and palaces alike, show the typical Egyptian influenced gorge cornice of roll and hollow moulding crowning the walls.
The design of the balustraded windows is based on Phoenician ivorycuttings showing a woman with Egyptian influenced hairstyle in a window.
The central court is just big enough for placing one or two gaming elements.
Entrance to the royal dwellings:
Entrance for the servants:
Since all upper- and middelclass buildings in almost all ancient and medieval periods were painted and colorfully decorated from both the inside and the outside, I have no reason to think this was any different with the Phoenicians. For chosing a color palette I studied some reconstructions of Salomo's palace again:
I transponated these colors to the exterior of the building and added some Assyrian and Babylonian motives to it which were the nearest references I could find.
The original doors were cut out of styrodur like the rest of the building.
Influenced by our member Kostis I replaced it by wooden doors.
Finally I decided to present the building surrounded by trees and plants since the Phoenicians were influenced by the Babylonians and Persians who preferred gardens all around and even on top of their dwellings.