Major archaeological site of the Mission Française1. Important Bronze age Tell2.
Irqata in the Tell Amarna letters3. Architis according to Macrobius4 (Saturnalia 1.21.1):-
Adonin quoque solem esse non dubitabitur inspecta religione Assyriorum, apud quos Veneris Architidis et Adonis maxima olim veneratio viguit, quam nunc Phoenices tenent.
Undoubtedly Adonis is also considered as the sun in the religion of the Assyrians, amongst whom the greatest veneration of Venus Architis and Adonis has become of prime importance, and the Phoenicians hold this belief now.
Venus appears on the city's coins5.
One small iron age temple has been excavated on the western rampart with a goddess found in place at the east end and an altar at the west6.
Bronnen
- ↑There is a full list of the excavation publications of J-P. Thalmann in Aliquot, below.
- ↑ Wikipedia (n.d.) Arqa
- ↑ Arthur Adolphe Vaschalde (1913), Catholic Encyclopedia Vol 14 (1913): Tell el-Amarna Tablets
- ↑ Saturnalia 1.21.1
- ↑Hill, G.F. A Catalogue of Coins in the British Museum: Phoenicia. London 1910 p. 109, no. 6-7, plate 13, 7-8, Elagabalus.
- ↑ Julien Aliquot (2009). La Vie religieuse au Liban sous l'Empire romain: Liban-Nord. Beyrouth : Presses de l’Ifpo, pp. 237.
