Eshmun
deity earth Phoenician single tradition · 5
Eshmun was a Phoenician god of healing and the tutelary god of Sidon. His name means "eighth," which may reference his status as the eighth son of the god Sydyk.
↻ synthesized from 5 sources
When
- First attested
- 1000 BCE
- Attested period
- -1000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Worshiped from the Iron Age through Roman times.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Astronoë, Ba‘l Hammon, Baʻl, Ištar, Anat, Tanit, Uni-Astre, Hygieia, Išḫara, Šauška, Hermes
- child of
- Sydyk
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (5)
Source passages
“A village near Beirut named Qabr Shmoun, "Eshmoun's grave," still exists.”
#11679 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Texts found mention Melqart among other Punic gods Eshmun, Astarte and Baʻl.”
#12034 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In Sidon, she shared a temple with Eshmun. Coins from Beirut show Poseidon, Astarte, and Eshmun worshipped together.”
#22788 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Thoth was associated in the same way with the Phoenician deity Eshmun. Inscriptions at the temple call the god "The Lord of Eshmun".”
#42075 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“stone vases mentioning Eshmun and dating to the 4th century BC were found”
#45179 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-20b:free