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Ancient Levantine civilizations
Societies, texts and material culture in the ancient Levant.
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Philo of Byblos
Writer of about the first–second centuries CE and author of Phoenician History, distinct from Philo of Alexandria.
Modern view of the Byblos remains, Lebanon, 4 September 2008. Photograph by Vyacheslav Argenberg; context for Philo of Byblos’s name, not a portrait or identification of his library
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Hammurabi
King of Babylon in Mesopotamia, reigning around 1792–1750 BCE. A celebrated legal text preserved on a stele and cuneiform copies bears his name.
A limestone votive monument from Sippar, showing Hammurabi with his left arm raised. The British Museum dates it to his reign, 1792–1750 BCE; object 22454. Photograph by Marie-Lan Nguyen, 2012
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