Talk:Royal necropolis of Ayaa

Snap
Hi, I just started writing this same article, as I have been reading about it again in the context of the second Egyptian sarcophagus. I only noticed this when I saw it linked to one of the images I was going to use. Do you mind if I edit your draft?

Onceinawhile (talk) 09:54, 21 August 2023 (UTC)


 * @Onceinawhile No please go ahead and edit away! el.ziade (talkallam) 12:22, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi, do you remember where the number "21 sarcophagi" came from in the first paragraph? I am looking for the original sources so we can count all 21 of them. I have seen it in Joubin (1893): "Après la découverte que nous fîmes en 1887-88 à Saïda de vingt et un sarcophages".
 * We only have 18 mentioned on this page, so we are missing three. I wonder whether they were from Ayaa, or perhaps from nearby locations (particularly Baramie). Onceinawhile (talk) 17:14, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi any objection to moving this into the mainspace? A couple more minor changes and I think it is ready. More detail can then be added subsequently. Onceinawhile (talk) 11:42, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
 * And how about a DYK hook along the lines of:
 * …that the discovery of a necropolis in Lebanon was the reason for the construction of the main building of the Istanbul Archaeology Museums?
 * The alternate would be something like “…that significant ancient Egyptian, Phoenician, Lycian and Greek sarcophagi were found together in Sidon”. This fact is almost as amazing to me as Stelae of Nahr el-Kalb; the area really was the crossroads of the ancient world.
 * Onceinawhile (talk) 14:27, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
 * @Onceinawhile hey buddy I’m back now. phenomenal work you did here! I’m in disbelief! Will go through it in the couple few days and will suggest a few DYK hooks and move to main space. el.ziade (talkallam) 17:44, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

Location
See: https://lilmadinainitiative.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/عندما-أصبحت-صيدا-مركز-اهتمام-السلطنة-ا/ for a map of the modern location. Onceinawhile (talk) 09:57, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Images
See two new categories of images:

Commons:Category:Une nécropole royale à Sidon

Commons:Category:Excavation of the royal necropolis of Ayaa

Onceinawhile (talk) 10:13, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

The Museum
The discovery of the necropolis was the reason for the building of the main building of the Istanbul Archaeology Museums. I see you were on the edge of writing this with the section "Commissioning of the Museum".

I will put some sources here:
 * THIS IS THE NEW MUSEUM'S FIRST LIST OF CONTENTS - MANY FROM AYAA.
 * THIS IS VERY DETAILED, PERHAPS THE MOST DETAILED SOURCE WE HAVE
 * https://muze.gov.tr/s3/MysFileLibrary/d14b95a9-a09c-4b57-9fc7-ef690fb7d9a6.pdf MODERN PLAN OF THE MUSEUM

Onceinawhile (talk) 10:17, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

Notes (bringing in from draft)
Renan, other hypogeums

Biblical historians and archaeologists, Hester Stanhope - Renan -

Foothills hillside plains

LXIV Renan plances and

Mugharet Abloun >> Eshmunazar 1855 [15]

Médéah ou Mékhédeh which is the same as Bostan el Magara(LXVI)[36]

Three caves east of sayda [15]

Until the time of the necropolis discovery

Bostan el Hamod is out - 1896 (Macridy)

Dahr el ʿaouq shaft and chamber tomb between the towns of Bramieh and Hlaliye - 1898 Macridy 557-558

Children Burial site of Harah Macridy 560

Magharet Abloun and its surroundings 561- (miye w miyye - ahmad assirani land - bramiyeh

Tyr tell el Rachediyeh

The plot sitting west of where the is called