• Baalat Gebal (Phoenician: 𐤁𐤏𐤋𐤕 𐤂𐤁𐤋, BʿLT GBL; also romanized as Ba’alat Gebal or Baalat Gubal; literally "Lady of Byblos"), also known as Bēltu...
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    The Temple of Baalat Gebal (Arabic: معبد بعلة جبيل maebad baalat jbeil) was an important Bronze Age temple structure in the World Heritage Site of Byblos...
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    Byblos Castle (category Museums of Ancient Near East in Lebanon)
    Phoenician archaeological site containing the ruins of the Temple of Baalat Gebal and the Temple of the Obelisks. The castle was built by the Crusaders...
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    Hathor (redirect from Temple of Hathor)
    the temple of Baalat Gebal in Byblos, using the syncretism of Baalat with Hathor to cement their close trading relationship with Byblos. A temple to Hathor...
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    Byblos figurines (category Collection of the National Museum of Beirut)
    a variety of such figurines were found, along with a smaller, but important group of them found in the neighboring Temple of Baalat Gebal. The figurines...
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    Byblos (redirect from Gebal)
    Temple of Baalat Gebal Aram Bezikian Museum The Armenian Genocide Orphans' Aram Bezikian Museum is a museum dedicated to preserving the memory of the...
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    the construction of the Temple of Baalat Gebal (approximately 100m to the west) had been built. It was named the "L-shaped" temple by Dunand, as its...
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    Osorkon Bust (category Kings of Byblos)
    likely in the Temple of Baalat Gebal. The Egyptian writing is the prenomen of Osorkon, and the Phoenician is a dedication to Elibaal, the king of Byblos. The...
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    Pepi I Meryre (category Pharaohs of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt)
    bearing Pepi's titulary and commemorating his jubilee from the Temple of Baalat Gebal. The high official, Iny, served Pepi during several successful expeditions...
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    Sahure (category Pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt)
    Excavations of the temple of Baalat-Gebal yielded an alabaster bowl inscribed with Sahure's name. The layout of the fourth phase of this temple might even...
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    Osorkon II (category Pharaohs of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt)
    Takelot F, served him as High Priest of Amun at Thebes–as the inscribed walls of Temple J prove – supports the hypothesis of a longer reign for Osorkon II....
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    Isis (redirect from Cult of Isis)
    had been worshipped as a form of the local goddess Baalat Gebal. Isis gradually replaced Hathor there in the course of the first millennium BCE and became...
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    Atargatis (related to the Babylonian and Assyrian Inanna and Phoenician Baalat Gebal), a fertility and sea goddess from Syria, was also popular. By the 3rd...
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    Tourism in Lebanon (category Economy of Lebanon)
    Temple of the Obelisks (also known as the Great Temple or L-Shaped temple), and the Temple of Baalat Gebal. St John the Baptist Church, a Crusader church...
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    Melqart (category History of Tyre, Lebanon)
    Phoenician practice of building a Temple of Melqart at new colonies. Similar to Tammuz and Adonis, he symbolized an annual cycle of death and rebirth....
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    Eshmun (category Temple of Eshmun)
    and in Carthage where the site of Eshmun's temple is now occupied by the acropolium of Carthage. According to Eusebius of Caesarea, Phoenician author Sanchuniathon...
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  • existence of temples dedicated to him and regular offerings is sparse, he is commonly attested in theophoric names, including these of members of Elamite...
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    Atargatis (category Books of the Maccabees)
    the chief goddess of northern Syria in Classical antiquity. Primarily she was a fertility goddess, but, as the baalat ("mistress") of her city and people...
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  • Semitic deity worshipped in the city of Mari, Syria. Her temple was found in 1952. Ishtarat was most probably a variant of Ishtar, who was worshipped beside...
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    El (deity) (category Names of God in Christianity)
    (presumably Asherah), and Dione (equated with Ba'alat Gebal). El is the father of Persephone and of Athena (presumably the goddess 'Anat). Sky and Earth...
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    Chemosh (section Temples)
    discovered. An inscription of the Moabite king Mesha mentions the existence of a 𐤁𐤕 𐤊𐤌𐤔‎ (Bēt Kamōš, lit. 'House (Temple) of Chemosh'). Mesha recorded...
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    scepter. As a protector of maritime trade, his temples also received votive stone anchors. The treaty between Asarhaddon and King Baʿal of Tyre ranks Baʿal Zaphon...
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    the protectors of caravans. His worship is also confirmed by material evidence found in the Temple of Adonis, Dura-Europos. In the temple complex there...
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    William F. Albright proposed in 1939 that she was a form of the "lady of Byblos" (Baalat Gebal), while René Dussard suggested a connection to "Asherat"...
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  • Ashima (category Books of Kings)
    Ashim-Yahu and Ashim-Beth-El are forms of her name and a variant of her name is also attested in the Hebrew temple in Elephantine in Egypt. The divine name...
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    Dagon (category Book of Judges)
    ancient Syria across the middle of the Euphrates, with primary temples located in Tuttul and Terqa, though many attestations of his cult come from cities such...
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    Azizos, god of the morning star and twin brother of Arsu. Ba'alah, the wife or female counterpart of Ba'al (also Belili). Ba'alat Gebal, goddess of Byblos...
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    Astarte (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of November 2024)
    deity of the city of Amathous, where stood one of the most famous temples of hers at the top of the acropolis of the city. The temple of ʿAštart of Amathous...
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    Zeus Olympios Zeus who shines.[citation needed] Temple of Baalshamin (not to be confused with the Temple of Bel) Bashamem inscription Other variations which...
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    was the name of the pan-Semitic god of fortune, usually depicted as a male but sometimes as a female, and is attested in ancient records of Aram and Arabia...
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