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:
Tyre, City, The submerged southern part of the city |
Tyre, Museum Pieces
Tyre (Phoenician צר, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean.Objects from Tyre can be found in several museums, including the National Museum in Beirut, the Louvre in Paris…
Tyre, Phoenician wall |
Tyre, Stele of Ramesses II and Ra-Horakhty |
Ugarit (Ras Shamra)
Ugarit (Hebrew אוּגָרִית): Bronze Age port in northern Syria, destroyed in the early twelfth century BCE, modern Ras Shamra. Cuneiform tablets illustrate the religion of ancient Canaan, i.e., the gods against which the first Jewish prophets polemicized.History …
Ugarit, Alphabet tablet |
Ugarit, Stele of the "smiting god" |
Ugarit, Bronze falcon in Egyptianizing style |
Ugarit, Copper and steel axe |
Ugarit, Cretan vase |
Entrance to the Royal Palace of Ugarit |
Ugarit, Royal Palace, General view |