Eshmun

E39470

Phoenician god healing deity

Eshmun is a Phoenician god primarily associated with healing and medicine, often linked to later Greco-Roman healing deities.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Eshmun canonical	9
Melqart	2
cult of Eshmun	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Phoenician god ⓘ healing deity ⓘ
associatedDeity	Astarte ⓘ Baal ⓘ
associatedWith	fertility ⓘ healing ⓘ life ⓘ medicine ⓘ restoration of health ⓘ
cultPeriod	Classical antiquity ⓘ Iron Age ⓘ surface form: Iron Age Levant
culture	Phoenician religion ⓘ
depictedAs	bearded male figure ⓘ standing with staff ⓘ
equatedWith	Asclepius ⓘ surface form: Aesculapius Asclepius ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
hasMythologicalRole	healer of humans ⓘ restorer of life ⓘ
hasSanctuaryType	healing sanctuary ⓘ
hasTemple	Temple of Eshmun ⓘ surface form: Temple of Eshmun at Bostan esh-Sheikh
hasTitle	Divine Physician ⓘ Lord of Healing ⓘ
influenced	later healing cults in the Mediterranean ⓘ
languageOfName	Phoenician ⓘ
linkedTo	Asclepian sanctuaries ⓘ Greco-Roman healing cults ⓘ
majorCultCenter	Sidon ⓘ
nameAttestedIn	Greek sources ⓘ Latin sources ⓘ Phoenician inscriptions ⓘ
patronOf	healing rituals ⓘ physicians ⓘ the sick ⓘ
region	Levant region ⓘ surface form: Levant
religiousTradition	Canaanite-Phoenician religion ⓘ
ritualPractice	pilgrimage to sanctuaries ⓘ ritual bathing at healing sites ⓘ votive offerings for healing ⓘ
symbol	serpent ⓘ staff ⓘ
typeOfCult	therapeutic cult ⓘ
worshippedIn	Carthage ⓘ Mediterranean colonies ⓘ Phoenician civilization ⓘ surface form: Phoenicia Sidon ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Eshmun
Description of subject: Eshmun is a Phoenician god primarily associated with healing and medicine, often linked to later Greco-Roman healing deities.

Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Phoenician civilization → majorDeity → Eshmun ⓘ

Sidon → majorDeityVenerated → Eshmun ⓘ

Phoenician religion → hasDeity → Eshmun ⓘ

this entity surface form: Melqart

Phoenician religion → hasDeity → Eshmun ⓘ

Phoenician religion → centralCultFigure → Eshmun ⓘ

this entity surface form: Melqart

Temple of Eshmun → dedicatedTo → Eshmun ⓘ

Temple of Eshmun → namedAfter → Eshmun ⓘ

Lord of Healing → refersTo → Eshmun ⓘ

Lord of Healing → honorificFor → Eshmun ⓘ

Divine Physician → refersTo → Eshmun ⓘ

Divine Physician → associatedWith → Eshmun ⓘ

Divine Physician → worshipContext → Eshmun ⓘ

this entity surface form: cult of Eshmun