Bint Jbeil

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Also Bent Jbeil. Located in southern Lebanon, around 2 kms north of Lebanon-Israel border. A stronghold of the Hezbollah party. Evacuated by Israel in May 2000 after a 20-year occupation, this town was the scene of a major battle between Israel and Hezbollah in August 2006.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bint_Jbeil
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Coordinates:   33°7'21"N   35°26'12"E

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  • عاصمة المقاومة والتحرير في لبنان تحية للمقاومة الاسلامية، سماها العدو بالمدينة "الملعونة" لما لقي بها من صمود وتكبد من خسائر.
  • تحيتة الى المقاومين في لبنان**سلام يا عاصمة التحرير
  • http://www.bintjbeil.com/
  • http://www.bintjbeil.org/
  • Home of killers
  • اللهم إحفظ أهل السنه والجماعه من كيد الحاقدين
  • Are u sure ur name is Mahmoud,, or ehod???
  • Ahiram or Ahirom was the Phoenician king of Byblos (ca. 1000 BC[1]) Ahiram was succeeded by his son Ittobaal as king of Byblos.[2] [edit] Sarcophagus The sarcophagus of Ahiram was discovered by the French archaeologist Pierre Montet in 1923[3] in Gebeil, the historic Byblos.[4]. Its low relief carved panels make it "the major artistic document for the Early Iron Age" in Phoenicia.[5] Associated items dating to the Late Bronze Age either support an early dating, in the thirteenth century BC or attest the reuse of an early shaft tomb in the eleventh century BC. The major scene represents a king seated on a throne carved with winged sphinxes. A priestess offers him a lotus flower. On the lid two male figures confront one another with addorsed seated lions between them, read by Glenn Markoe as a reference to the father and son of the inscription. Egyptian influence that is a character of Late Bronze Age art in northwest Canaan is replaced here by Assyrian influences in the rendering of figures and the design of the throne and a table.[5] A total absence of Egyptian objects of the 20th and 21st dynasties in Phoenicia[6] contrasts sharply with the resumption of Phoenician-Egyptian ties in the 22nd Dynasty of Egypt. The inscription on the sarcophagus[7] is the oldest evidence of the Phoenician alphabet discovered to date: The following is the translation of the inscription: Coffin which Ittobaal, son of Ahiram, king of Byblos, made for Ahiram, his father, when he placed him in the 'house of eternity'. Now if a king among kings or a governor among governors or a commander of an army should come up against Byblos and uncovers this coffin, may the sceptre of his rule be torn away, may the throne of his kingdom be overturned, and may peace flee from Byblos! And as for him, if he destroys this inscription, then the...![8] The formulas of the inscription were immediately recognised as literary in nature, and the assured cutting of the archaic letters suggested to Charles Torrey[3] a form of writing already in common use. A tenth-century BC date for the inscription has become widely accepted.
  • "Gebeil, the historic Byblos" is in northwest Lebanon. not here.
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