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Sidon

Alexander the Great seized Sidon from the Persians in 333 BC. It became a Roman colony during the reign of Elagabalus.

Mithraic monuments of Sidon

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People attested in Sidon

Flavius Gerontios

Flavius Gerontios
(389)

Inscriptions from Sidon

Taurcotony sculpture from Sidon

Φλ. Γερόντιος, πατὴρ νόμιμος τῶν τελετῶν τοῦ θεοῦ εὐχαριστῶν αφιερωσάτω τῷ φ̕ ἔτει.
Flavius Gerontios, pater nominos of the rites of initiation of the god, in thanks I have consecrated [this statue] in the year 500.

Lion-headed Aion from Sidon

Φλ. Γερόντιος, πατὴρ νόμιμος, ἀνεϑέμην τῷ φ̕ ἔτι.
Flavius Gerontios, pater nominos, have consecrated [this statue] in the year 500.

Hekataion of Sidon

Φλ. Γερόντιος, πατὴρ νόμιμος, εὐχαριστῶν τὴν θέον ἀφιερωσάτω φʹ ἔτι.
I, Flavius Gerontios, father of the customs [patēr nomimos], dedicated the goddess as a thanksgiving in the 500th year.
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