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| | Sarepta -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16) |
 | | The site of the ancient town is marked by the (An event that results in destruction) ruins on the shore to the south of the modern village, about 8 miles to the South of Sidon, which extend along the shore for a mile or more. |
 | | The other group of ruins is to the south, and consists of ((architeture) a tall cylindrical vertical upright and used to support a structure) columns, (Click link for more info and facts about sarcophagi) sarcophagi, and marble slabs, indicating a city of considerable importance. |
 | | Pritchard's excavations revealed many artifacts of daily life in the ancient Phoenician city of Sarepta: pottery workshops and (A large oven for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks) kilns, artifacts of daily use and religious figurines, numerous inscriptions that included some in (An extinct Semitic language of northern Syria) Ugaritic. |
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