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Was an Aslepieion founded hby the Seleuids

Conclusion: was regarded as a holy land with

From a Homeric hero-physician, waters of healing and therapeutic

Aslepios turmed to a local properties.The arrival ofAslepios

healing deity and subsequently to at Tylos might not be unrelated to

a Panhellenic healer and helper of the probable Athenian community

the sic and the afflicted. From on the island. It could very well

Tia and Epidauros, he moved have been encouraged by Seleuid

to Korinthos, Athens and Larisa imperialism and ideology. The

just to name a few of the places his Diosouroi temple at Tylos might

cult was established in Greece. In also be related to the existence

the Hellenistic period, it crossed of an Aslepieion on the island

the boundaries of Greece into since, according to Phoenician

Asia Minor to Troad, Ephesos, mythology, Diosouroi and the

Pergamon and Kos. Aslepios Phoenician god Eshmun, who was

extended his presence to the identified with Aslepios, were

eastemr Mediterranean coast to brothers.

iliia, Ptolemaic Egypt, Dor,

Tiberias, Neapolis (Nablus) and [ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Asalon. He also too over from I am greatly indebted to Dr. Panos

the Phoenician healing deity Christodoulou of the University

Eshmun in Sidon and Tyros. He of Cyprus who having read a dratf
travelled and became a prominent of the script, offered invaluable

healing deity in Catrhage, Sardinia advice and comments, which

and Rome. He eventually reached prompted for futrher wor and

as fra as Tylos and the Gulf as research that I hope made my

healer and saviour of seamen. arguments more credible. I also
In the words of the 2nd century
A.D. sophist Aelius Aristides, he wish to mention Dr. Abdul A2iz
became the 'god who regulates
and urles the universe, Saviour of Al-Suwaileh, who is presently an
all things, Saviour of what is and
what shall be.(65) independent researcher in Bahrain.

It is quite probable that the His involvement in the Bahraini
cult of Aslepios reached Tylos
due to the fact that the island archaeological excavations

and wealth of nowledge on

Hellenistic Tylos and Dilmun

civiliation were a great help to

me. My numerous discussions with

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