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ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE · 01

Byblos: port, temple and strata

The different phases of Byblos show a long history of temples and relations with Egypt.

Museum documentation · free public access, no account required.

DECLARED VISUAL RECONSTRUCTION · AI-GENERATED IMAGE · TRACEKEEPERS

Generated reconstruction · Declared visual hypothesis

Declared visual reconstruction, created for museographic contextualisation; not a photograph of the original nor does it constitute documentary evidence.

Image of Byblos: port, temple and strata
DECLARED VISUAL RECONSTRUCTION · AI-GENERATED IMAGE · TRACEKEEPERS

Generated reconstruction · Declared visual hypothesis

Declared visual reconstruction, created for museographic contextualisation; not a photograph of the original nor does it constitute documentary evidence.

History and context

The Phoenician city was a phase within a much longer occupation.

Evidence and interpretation

Synthesis based on UNESCO · Byblos; UNESCO · Tyre; The Met · Phoenicians. The comparison serves to formulate questions, not to fill gaps in the record with certainties.

Catalogue facts

Civilisation or trajectory
Phoenicia
Scope
Building and Power
Main area
Tyre, Sidon, Byblos, and other cities on the Levantine coast, especially in present-day Lebanon.

A closer look

About 1 min to read · 1 section. Further reading and sources · free access. Editorial review recorded: .

The visible temple also has a history of excavation

The current position of the Obelisks Temple does not exactly reproduce the ancient superposition. Its remains were dismantled and moved to allow study of the earlier temple, with an L-shaped plan, on which it had been built. The Byblos municipality places the Middle Bronze Age building between 1900 and 1600 BCE and records 1,306 recovered offerings. Among them stand out metal figurines coated with gold leaf, frequently male and with conical headdresses. Understanding the sanctuary requires reading its ritual deposit at the same time as the modern decisions that reorganised its visible structures.

Location and territory

Physical world map with routes of human evolutionPresent-day world coastline from Natural Earth in an equirectangular projection. The overlaid markers let you explore each milestone.Map base: Natural Earth 1:110m · public domain · present-day reference coastline

REGIONAL AREA

Levantine cities; the routes and colonies do not equate to a state frontierLevantine cities; the routes and colonies do not equate to a state frontier. The footprint indicates the orientative centre of the area, not a frontier nor an exact point.

Sources and references

Consult the sources of this cultural synthesis

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