Eshmun

It is thought this may be a temple to a spouse of Eshmun.

And Eshmun had fa- vored her cause with the king.

A number of ancient texts mention the Eshmun Temple and its location.

Thoth was associated in the same way with the Semitic Eshmun.

"There she is grieving her son Eshmun."

She did not want to see a Persian face on Sidonian Eshmun.

Inscriptions at the temple call the god "The Lord of Eshmun".

The name Eshmun appears to mean 'the Eighth'.

Eshmun's priestess bent over the curbing, dipping water in her cupped hands.

In Sidon, she shared a temple with Eshmun.

Offering silent thanks to Eshmun for his protection, I rose to my feet and slid out from behind his statue.

"They first guarded the body of Eshmun, after Baal-Jupiter slew him.

'Though here they call him Eshmun."

The agricultural turned healing god Eshmun was worshipped at Carthage, as were other dieities.

For the death of your son Eshmun, I am sorry; I have heard your grief and shared it.

The grieving goddess revived Eshmun and transported him to the heavens where she made him into a uranic god.

Site of Temple of Eshmun discovered in Lebanon.

A coin of the 3rd century AD from Beirut shows Eshmun standing between two serpents.

Loss, endless loss; Asherat's grief for her slain son Eshmun commingling with my own.

"Don't you remember Eshmun's temple?"

Eshmun's cult enjoyed a particular importance at Sidon as he was the chief deity after 500 BC.

Among the notable finds is a golden plaque showing a snake curling on a staff, a Hellenic symbol of Eshmun.

Excavation of Eshmun Temple by Maurice Dunand begins (continues into 1970s).

"There's a lovely Temple of Eshmun on the Isla Maestus," he said.

There was a small alcove holding a statue of Eshmun on a black marble plinth; a smiling youth crowned with a grain wreath.