They would have used a variation of a tinderbox and a flint and steel. Here is a roman example of a steel and a flint in a holder currently for sale on ebay: Another possibility is “ember” carriers. read more
The purple dye manufactured and used in Tyre for the robes of Mesopotamian royalty gave Phoenicia the name by which we know it today (from the Greek Phoinikes for Tyrian Purple) and also accounts for the Phoenicians being known as 'purple people’ by the Greeks (as the Greek historian Herodotus tells us) because the dye would stain the skin of the workers. read more