Levant
This category covers the area that was once called Canaan, or Beyhn Nahrîn, or Eber Nâri, or Bilad al-Sham, or the Levant, or Greater Syria. In other words, Syria, Jorda, Lebanon, Israel and the Palestine territories.
There are 354 items in Levant:
Elagabal
Elagabal (Aramaic Ilaha Gabal, the "lord of the mountain"), Syrian sun god. His cult was introduced in Rome by the boy-emperor Heliogabalus (218-222).The pantheon of Emesa …Enkomi
Enkomi: Bronze Age settlement in eastern Cyprus.Middle Bronze Age House of the Pillar Rich in copper and situated between three continents, Cyprus…
Enkomi, Building 18, Statuette of a Seated deity |
Enkomi, Building 18, Statuette of a Seated deity |
Enkomi, Figurine of the "Smiting god" |
Enkomi, Statuette of a bull |
Euphrates
Euphrates (Greek Εὐφράτης): river in ancient Mesopotamia. The Euphrates at Birecik (Turkey) The Euphrates is the longest river of the Near East: it…Ezekiel announces the Fall of Tyre
Tyre (Phoenician רצ, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean.In 598/596 BCE, king Jehoiachin and the Jewish elite had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia. In the eleventh year, shortly after the…
Glass sand |
Gobryas (satrap)
Gobryas (Old Persian Gaubaruva): satrap of Babylonia and the countries "across the river" (Euphrates). Achaemenid nobleman Gobryas was appointed in his important…
Gypsum |
Hannaouiye, "Tomb of Hiram"
Hannaouiye: place of the so-called "Tomb of Hiram", a Persian-age funerary monument. The so-called "Tomb of Hiram" Although named after the legendary…