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The port of Astronoe in Tyre

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The present study focuses on the port of Astronoe in Tyre. This harbour is mentioned in a series of Greek inscriptions from the Byzantine necropolis of the ancient Phoenician city. The review of all available sources leads to the conclusion that it was one of the two main ports of Tyre and that it corresponded to the harbour that Strabo called the ‘closed port’ and to the northern port of the island, the present-day Old Port. In Roman times Astronoe’s harbour was under the protection of a local goddess, whose myth was common to several Phoenician cities, including Berytus, the great rival of Tyre, and whose cult was celebrated in Tyre either in the sanctuary of Heracles, or in a specific sanctuary located inside the city. Mother of the gods and lover of one of the Dioscuri, protectors of sailors, Astronoe was the object of special attention from civic authorities and from Tyrian dignitaries, which explains why her name remained associated with one of the two main ports of Tyre in the early Byzantine period, in the formal toponymy as in the popular language of murex fishermen.
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halshs-03835979, version 1 (29-11-2022)

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Julien Aliquot. The port of Astronoe in Tyre. Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos: three global harbors of the ancient world: proceedings of the international symposium, Bristol, 25-29 October, Beirut 2017, 18, Ministère de la Culture, Direction Générale des Antiquités, pp.61-70, 2020, Bulletin d’archéologie et d’architecture libanaises, Hors-Série. ⟨halshs-03835979⟩
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