Kiboreia

 ( Sacred Natural Sites ) 

Kiboreia is a location that is known from a Ancient Greece inscription taken from a large temple at Deir El Aachayer on the northern slopes of Mount Hermon in Lebanon.Jalabert, L., "Inscriptions grecques et latines de Syrie (deuxième série)" in Mélanges de la Faculté Orientale de Beyrouth 2, p.265-320, 1907.

Ted Kaizer (2026). 9789004167353, BRILL. . ISBN 9789004167353

Emile Puech (1998). 9780198269489, Oxford University Press. . ISBN 9780198269489

The inscription was found noting that a bench was installed "in the year 242, under Beeliabos, also called Diototos, son of Abedanos, high priest of the gods of Kiboreia". Julien Alquot argued that the bench had liturgical uses as a mobile throne.

The era of the gods of Kiboreia is not certain, as is their location which is not conclusively to be identified with Deir El Aachayer, but was possibly the Roman sanctuary or the name of a settlement in the area.

Fergus Millar (1993). 9780674778863, Harvard University Press. . ISBN 9780674778863

It has been suggested that the name Kiboreia was formed from the Aramaic word kbr, meaning a "place of great abundance".

Categories: Sacred Natural Sites, Sacred Mountains, Mythological Mountains, Archaeology Of Lebanon, Greek Inscriptions

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