Roman necropolis at al-Bass

burial ground · 30 BC – 2099 AD

The Tyre necropolis, part of the UNESCO World Heritage site of Tyre, contains a triumphal arch and hundreds of stone sarcophagi dated to the Roman and Byzantine periods. It is located adjacent to an older Phoenician burial site.

Coordinates

33.27026, 35.21240

Also known as

al-Bass, el-Bass, al-Baṣ, al-Buss, al-Buṣ (arb), البص (arb)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)

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