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(İng. Byblos)

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Although the majority of jar burials excavated at Byblos were devoid of lavish grave goods, at least 20 contained rich inventories of gold and silver jewellery and copper weapons, thus suggesting a socially stratified society.

Whilst according to Lucian (De Dea Syria, 6), Byblian women who refused to shave their hair and offer it to the god Adonis at the annual festival in his honour were punished by being forced to spend a day prostituting themselves in the temple of ‘Ashtart.