Berytan

comparative more Berytan · superlative most Berytan

1. alternativeAlternative form of Berytian.

   The coin of Berytus in the Salamis hoard likewise is paralleled by the Berytan coins found at Kourion.

   2004, The Roman Coinage of Cyprus, page 151

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   Justinian's board of commissioners was composed of representatives of four parties: Constantinopolitan officials, Constantinopolitan professors, Berytan professors [...]

   1961, A Study of History, volume 7, page 272

   Having firmly nailed my colours to the Berytan mast, I have simply to offer my case as an ill-favoured thing [...]

   1996, Codex Bezae, page 335

   Numerous inscriptions relating to soldiers and officers have been found in Numidia and in Gaul [...]. The one example that relates to Berytan merchants comes from Puteoli in Italy.

   2019, Simone Paturel, “Roman Berytus”, in Jonathan M[ark] Hall, Jan Paul Crielaard, Benet Salway, editors, Baalbek-Heliopolis, the Bekaa, and Berytus from 100 BCE to 400 CE (Mnemosyne Supplements: History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity; 426), Leiden; Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 145

plural Berytans

1. alternativeAlternative form of Berytian.

   Moreover, the Berytans were fervent worshippers of Jupiter Optimus Maximus Heliopolitanus [...]

   1994, The Book of Acts in Its Graeco-Roman Setting, page 240

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   It is scarcely possible to attribute to it any other use but that of a basilica, a large public hall, where the Phœnician merchants were in the habit of congregating, probably for commercial transactions. It may have been the Exchange of the Berytans.

   1854, F[élicien] de Saulcy, chapter I, in Edward de Warren, editor, Narrative of a Journey Round the Dead Sea and in the Bible Lands; […], new (2nd) edition, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 13

   The Tyrians and the Sareptans had clearly formed themselves into some sort of social-cum-religious clubs, just as had the Berytans [...]

   2017, John D. Grainger, Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire to AD 300