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Surroundings:

Shhim TempleShhim TempleShhim TempleTemple of EshmunTemple of Eshmun, throne

Location:

  • Lebanon, Ḩārat al Kanīsah
  • geo:33.664536,35.419128
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -1700~ / 6xx

Class:

  • Vicus or canabae
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=24161

Annotations

Porphyreon was known as an important coastal station between Akka and Antakia in the late Roman province of Phoenice Prima.  There is a comprehensive article on the state of the town by Tomasz Waliszewski and Mariusz Gwiazda1, and another by Tomasz B. Waliszewski and Ula Wicenciak2.

See:

  1. "Porphyreon". In Herbermann, Charles. Catholic Encyclopedia. 12. New York: Robert Appleton.
  2. Tomasz Waliszewski and Mariusz Gwiazda (2015). Porphyreon through the Ages: The Fading Archaeological Heritage of the Lebanese Coast. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Volume 3, Number 4, 2015, pp. 330-348. DOI 10.1353/ema.2015.0043]
  3. Tomasz B. Waliszewski and Ula Wicenciak: Jiyeh (Porphyreon)Nouvelles découvertes sur le territoire de Sidon à l’époque hellénistique. Topoi Suppl. 13 · January 2015

References

  1. Tomasz Waliszewski and Mariusz Gwiazda (2015). Porphyreon through the Ages: The Fading Archaeological Heritage of the Lebanese Coast. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Volume 3, Number 4, 2015, pp. 330-348. DOI 10.1353/ema.2015.0043
  2. Tomasz B. Waliszewski and Ula Wicenciak, Jiyeh (Porphyreon)Nouvelles découvertes sur le territoire de Sidon à l’époque hellénistique. Topoi Suppl. 13 · January 2015.


Nearby

Porphyreon - Jiyeh

Christian basilica with floor mosaics.

Nabi-Younes [Porphyreon]

Limestone, Sandstone quarry. Porphion - Jiyeh.


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