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Sexi (, ), also known as Ex, was a Phoenician colony at the present-day site of Almuñécar on southeastern Spain's Mediterranean coast.
The Roman name for the place was . Alternative transcriptions of the Phoenician name of the city in Latin include and .
History
thumb|A Punic coin of Sexi
The ancient Phoenician settlement, whose earliest phases are unclear, was located southwest of the Solorius Mons (the modern Sierra Nevada mountain range). From the 3rd-2nd centuriesBC it issued a sizable corpus of coinage, with many coins depicting the Phoenico-Punic god Melqart on the obverse and one or two fish on the reverse, possibly alluding to the abundance of the sea and also a principal product of the area. The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World equates ancient Sexi with modern Almuñécar.
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