Definition of Byblos

1. Noun. An ancient Mediterranean seaport that was a thriving city state in Phoenicia during the second millennium BC; was the chief port for the export of papyrus; located in Lebanon to the north of Beirut; now partially excavated.

Generic synonyms: Archeological Site, Dig, Excavation
Group relationships: Lebanese Republic, Lebanon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Byblos

Butlerians
Buxaceae
Buxus
Buxus sempervirens
Buyei
Buyi
Buzzard's manoeuvre
Buzzards Bay
Bwamba fever
Bwamba virus
Byblian
Byblos
Bydgoszcz
Byelarus
Byelorussia
Byelorussian
Byelorussian SSR
Byelorussians
Byler disease
Byrd
Byron
Byronesque
Byronian
Byronians
Byronic
Byronically

Literary usage of Byblos

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians by John Gardner Wilkinson (1841)
"It had been carried by the waves of the sea to the coast of byblos, and there gently ... Isis, having gone to byblos, obtained possession of this pillar, ..."

2. A Second Series of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians by John Gardner Wilkinson (1841)
"It had been carried by the waves of the sea to the coast of byblos, and there gently- ... Isis, having gone to byblos, obtained possession of this pillar, ..."

3. Syria/Lebanon by Wolfgang Gockel, Helga Bruns (1998)
"Jbail. as byblos is called in Arabic, is a splendid sight. ... byblos was founded by the god El. who became the Titan Cronos in Greek mythology. ..."

4. A Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge, Leonard William King (1908)
"Letter from Rib-Adda, governor of byblos, to Aman- appa, an official of the king of Egypt, reporting that the enemy's attack is becoming fiercer; ..."

5. The Geography of Herodotus ...: Illustrated from Modern Researches and by James Talboys Wheeler (1854)
"Obtains the chest which had been stranded at byblos ; Typhon subsequently recovers it, tears the body into fourteen pieces, and scatters them about Aegypt. ..."

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