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An ancient Phoenician temple unearthed in Sicily is "unique" in the West, the head of the Italian dig team claims . "You have to go all the way to Amrit in Syria to find a similar one," said Lorenzo Nigro of the Rome University team. The temple came to light last year after a portion of a lagoon surrounding the Phoenician city of Motya (present-day Mozia) was drained .

 

via Ansa.it

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That is really, really cool.

 

However, the article said it was probably a temple for Baal; if it was attached to a spring I doubt that...

 

It was most likely a Temple for Melqart. The well near Melqart's Temple in Cadiz was talked about frequently because the effect that the tides had on it.

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