Marriner (2006) provides the following background information

The Sidone-Dakerman area chronicles a long history of human occupation stretching back to the Neolithic [67]. Canaan’s oldest city according to Genesis, the tell occupies a modest rocky promontory that overlooks a partially drowned sandstone ridge and two marine embayments. During the Iron Age, this geomorphological endowment allowed Sidon to evolve into one of Phoenicia’s key city-states, producing and transiting wealthy commodities to trading partners in Assyria, Egypt, Cyprus and the Aegean. This trading ascendancy is corroborated by the Old Testament’s use of the term Sidonian to encapsulate all Phoenicians. Sidon enjoyed its apogee during the sixth to fifth centuries BC, at which time it superseded Tyre as Phoenicia’s principal naval base.

• Fig. 1 Location of cores
  Fig. 1
  
  Sidon’s ancient harbour areas and location of cores
  
  Marriner et al (2006)
  from Marriner et al (2006)
• Fig. 2 Sidon’s coastal bathymetry
  Fig. 2
  
  Sidon’s coastal bathymetry
  
  Marriner et al (2006)
  from Marriner et al (2006)
• Fig. 3 Aerial Photograph of
  Fig. 3
  
  Sidon and Zire (from [31]). In the foreground, Sidon’s outer harbour lies in the shadow zone of Zire island. The promontory of Sidon separates two coves, the northern harbour and Poidebard’s Crique Ronde.
  
  Marriner et al (2006)
  Sidon and Zire from Marriner et al (2006)
• Painting of Sidon from 1857
  Painting of Sidon from 1857 by C.M.W. van de Velde
  
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  Charles William Meredith van de Velde's in Le Pays d'Israel - Public Domian from Wikipedia
• Sidon in Google Earth
  Sidon
  
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• Fig. 4 Sedimentology of core BH I
  Fig. 4
  
  Sedimentology of core BH I (northern harbour).
  
  Marriner et al (2006)
  (northern harbour) from Marriner et al (2006)
• Fig. 5 Molluscan macrofauna from
  Fig. 5
  
  Molluscan macrofauna from core BH I (northern harbour).
  
  Marriner et al (2006)
  core BH I (northern harbour) from Marriner et al (2006)
• Fig. 6 Ostracod microfauna
  Fig. 6
  
  Ostracod microfauna from core BH I (northern harbour)
  
  Marriner et al (2006)
  from core BH I (northern harbour) from Marriner et al (2006)
• Fig. 7 Sedimentology of core
  Fig. 7
  
  Sedimentology of core BH IX (northern harbour).
  
  Marriner et al (2006)
  BH IX (northern harbour) from Marriner et al (2006)
• Fig. 8 Molluscan macrofauna
  Fig. 8
  
  Molluscan macrofauna from core BH IX (northern harbour).
  
  Marriner et al (2006)
  from core BH IX (northern harbour) from Marriner et al (2006)
• Fig. 9 Ostracod microfauna
  Fig. 9
  
  Ostracod microfauna from core BH IX (northern harbour).
  
  Marriner et al (2006)
  from core BH IX (northern harbour) from Marriner et al (2006)
• Fig. 10 Sedimentology of
  Fig. 10
  
  Sedimentology of core BH XV (northern harbour).
  
  Marriner et al (2006)
  core BH XV (northern harbour) from Marriner et al (2006)
• Fig. 11 Molluscan macrofauna from
  Fig. 11
  
  Molluscan macrofauna from core BH XV (northern harbour).
  
  Marriner et al (2006)
  core BH XV (northern harbour) from Marriner et al (2006)

Marinner et al (2006) and Carayon et al (2011) reported on 15 cores taken around the northern harbor and four around the cirque ronde. There is no mention of tsunamogenic evidence in the cores. Marinner et al (2006:1521) noted that in Unit B2 (Closed Phoenician to Roman harbours) persistent age-depth anomalies concur analogous data in Tyre’s ancient harbour where strong chronostratigraphic evidence for dredging has been detailed from the Roman period onwards. This may indicate that, like at Tyre, any evidence of a 1st millennium BCE tsunami may have been removed by dredging.

Marinner et al (2006) and Carayon et al (2011) reported on 15 cores taken around the northern harbor and four around the cirque ronde. There is no mention of tsunamogenic evidence in the cores.

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