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PHOENICIAN TEMPLE AT AMRIT. Located on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, the Phoenician temple at Amrit is probably dedicated to the Phoenician god Melqart (the primary god of Tyre) and the Phoenician god of healing Eshmun (the main god of Sidon). Built in the sixth–fourth centuries B.C.E. (when the area was under Persian control), this temple functioned until the site was abandoned. The principal extant feature of the temple is an elevated cella (central chamber or chapel) in the temple’s large court that is surrounded by a colonnade.