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al-Bass

a Pleiades name resource

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The modern Arabic name of the site is used generically to refer to both the Roman/Byzantine necropolis and the adjacent Phoenician site.

Romanized Name(s):
al-Bass, el-Bass, al-Baṣ, al-Buss, al-Buṣ

Name as attested:

البص

Language:
Arabic (Modern Standard)

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Certain

Temporal attestations:

twenty-first century of the common era (confident)

References:

See Further:

Aubet 2004 page 492

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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