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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.
Group relationships: Lebanese Republic, Lebanon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Byblos
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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