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Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Al Madīnah as Siyāḩīyah
  • geo:35.589188,35.746342
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -1500~ / -800

Class:

  • Workshop or industry
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=41124

Annotations

'White Harbour' in Periplus, a coastal guidebooks by of Himilco the Navigator (late VI century BC). Later knew as Betyllion. Probably ancient Biruti.

 

See:

  1. Pierre Bordreuil and Dennis Pardee. La trouvaille épigraphique de l’Ougarit, Ras Shamra-Ougarit V/1, 1989, pp. 363-377.
  2. M. Dietrich, O.Loretz and J.Sanmartin, The Cuneiform Alphabetic Texts from Ugarit, Ras Ibn Hani and Other Places, Münster 1995
  3. Jacques Lagarce and Elizabeth Lagarce, Le palais nord de Ras ibn Hani, BAH 1998, vol.151, p. 85-86 et 91-96.
  4. Nicolas Beaudry,Ras el Bassit: An Early Byzantine Church in Coastal North Syria - https://www.doaks.org/research/support-for-research/project-grants/reports/2007-2008/beaudry

Relevant museums

Aleppo, National Museum

Large collection of Bronze Age (a/o Ebla, Mari, Ugarit), Iron Age (Arslan Tash), Hellenistic, and Roman finds.

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre


Nearby

Ramitha

Phoenician Lamitha ruins. Later Laodicaea ad marem.

Ras Ibn Hani (1 km)

Ras Ibn Hani is a small cape located 8 kilometers north of Latakia, Syria on the Mediterranean Sea. It is an important archaeological site as it was occupied almost continuously from the late Bronze Age until Byzantine times.

Mahadu, Port of Ugarit (3 km)

Ancient Ma`Hadu modern Minet el Beida. Leukos Limen.


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