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:
Philadelphia (Amman)
Philadelphia: orginal capital of the Ammonites, city in the Ptolemaic Empire, one of the towns in the Decapolis, modern Amman (Jordan).Prehistory and Iron Age …
Phoenician coin with warship |
Phoenician figurines of deities |
Phoenician ivory of Astarte |
Phoenician rhython in Assyrian style |
Phoenician-Etruscan dish |
Phoenicians
Phoenicians (Greek: Φοίνικες): Greek name of the inhabitants of the ancient cities of Aradus, Tripoli, Byblos, Berytus, Sidon, and Tyre. In the Iron Age, they founded colonies on Cyprus (Kition), on Sicily (Motya, Panormus), in Libya (Lepcis, Oea, Sabratha), in…
Phosphate |
Potash |
Proskynesis
Proskynesis: Greek name of the ritual greeting at the eastern courts. A courtier saluting king Darius the Great (central relief of…Qarqar (853 BCE)
Battle of Qarqar: one of the fights during the Assyrian king Šalmaneser III's campaign against the city states of Syria. The main source is the Kurkh Stela, which has become famous because it mentions king Ahab of Israel.Prelude …
Qasr Banat, Farm, entrance |