Berytan

English

Adjective

Berytan (comparative more Berytan, superlative most Berytan)

1. Alternative form of Berytian
   • 1961, A Study of History‎^[1], volume 7, page 272:

     Justinian's board of commissioners was composed of representatives of four parties: Constantinopolitan officials, Constantinopolitan professors, Berytan professors [...]

   • 1996, Codex Bezae‎^[2], page 335:

     Having firmly nailed my colours to the Berytan mast, I have simply to offer my case as an ill-favoured thing [...]

   • 2004, The Roman Coinage of Cyprus‎^[3], page 151:

     The coin of Berytus in the Salamis hoard likewise is paralleled by the Berytan coins found at Kourion.

   • 2019, Simone Paturel, “Roman Berytus”, in Jonathan M[ark] Hall, Jan Paul Crielaard, Benet Salway, editors, Baalbek-Heliopolis, the Bekaa, and Berytus from 100 BCE to 400 CE (Mnemosyne Supplements: History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity; 426), Leiden, Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 145:

     Numerous inscriptions relating to soldiers and officers have been found in Numidia and in Gaul [...]. The one example that relates to Berytan merchants comes from Puteoli in Italy.

Noun

Berytan (plural Berytans)

1. Alternative form of Berytian
   • 1854, F[élicien] de Saulcy, chapter I, in Edward de Warren, editor, Narrative of a Journey Round the Dead Sea and in the Bible Lands; […], new (2nd) edition, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 13:

     It is scarcely possible to attribute to it any other use but that of a basilica, a large public hall, where the Phœnician merchants were in the habit of congregating, probably for commercial transactions. It may have been the Exchange of the Berytans.

   • 1994, The Book of Acts in Its Graeco-Roman Setting‎^[4], page 240:

     Moreover, the Berytans were fervent worshippers of Jupiter Optimus Maximus Heliopolitanus [...]

   • 2017, John D. Grainger, Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire to AD 300:

     The Tyrians and the Sareptans had clearly formed themselves into some sort of social-cum-religious clubs, just as had the Berytans [...]

Anagrams

• bantery