Al Mina

A site on the coast of Syria near the mouth of the Orontes River that was a Greek settlement before the end of the 9th century BC and may have been Poseideion. Material from the 8th-4th centuries BC has been found, indicating further links between Greece and the Near East. Al Mina was sacked and destroyed by Ptolemy of Egypt in 413 BC.

Site on the coast of Syria near the mouth of the Orontes River. It was at least in part a Greek settlement established from Euboea before the end of the 9th century bc and probably called Posideion. It was an entrepot site, and excavated buildings were all probably warehouses, built to a standard plan. Material of the 8th to 4th centuries bc has been found, indicating strong trading links between Greece and the Near East. In 413 bc Ptolemy of Egypt sacked and destroyed Al Mina and in the 4th century Seleucus, a few kilometres north, became the new trade centre. The site of Sabouni nearby has yielded large quantities of imported Mycenean pottery of the 14th and 13th centuries BC, showing that the site had a long antiquity as a centre for trade with the Aegean world.