Ancient population · Antiquity

Roman (Antiquity, Lebanon)

Lebanon_Roman

Roman (Antiquity, Lebanon) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Lebanon_Roman), with 2 samples from Lebanon, dated to c. 340–540 CE.

Among ancient populations it sits closest to Levant Roman (Antiquity, Lebanon), IA3 (Iron Age, Lebanon) and Levant Beirut IAIII (Iron Age); the nearest living populations are Lebanese Christian, Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura and Lebanese Maronite Christian Zgharta.

Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup T1a; its mtDNA haplogroups include T1 and U3b.

Period
Antiquity
Date
c. 340–540 CE
Country
Lebanon
Sampled near
Qornet ed-Deir 34.05, 35.78
Samples
2
Catalogue
Lebanon_Roman.SG variant

Nearest populations

Distance between population averages in scaled G25 space, ×100. Lower is closer. It says who resembles this population, not who descends from it; an nMonte model tests that.

Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Levant Roman (Antiquity, Lebanon)Levant_LBN_Roman0.70
2IA3 (Iron Age, Lebanon)Lebanon_IA31.65
3Levant Beirut IAIII (Iron Age)Levant_Beirut_IAIII1.74
4Lebanese Christian Greek OrthodoxLebanese_Christian_Greek_Orthodox2.04
5Ej Jaouze Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon)Lebanon_EjJaouze_Phoenician2.09
6ERoman (Antiquity, Lebanon)Lebanon_ERoman2.11
7Lebanese Christian MaroniteLebanese_Christian_Maronite2.17
8Chhim Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon)Lebanon_Chhim_Phoenician2.25
9Levant Beirut ERoman (Antiquity)Levant_Beirut_ERoman2.28
10Levant (Medieval, Lebanon)Levant_LBN_MA2.32
Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Lebanese ChristianLebanese_Christian2.04
2Lebanese Orthodox Christian KouraLebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura2.08
3Lebanese Maronite Christian ZghartaLebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta2.16
4Palestinian Beit SahourPalestinian_Beit_Sahour2.22
5Lebanese Sunni Muslim DinniyehLebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh2.37
6DruzeDruze2.94
7Lebanese DruzeLebanese_Druze2.96
8SamaritanSamaritan3.03
9AlawiteAlawite3.38
10Karaite EgyptKaraite_Egypt3.45

Haplogroups

Y-DNA

1 man with a call

mtDNA

2 individuals with a call

Individuals 4

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Outliers are kept out of the population's average. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

SampleSexDateSiteY-DNAmtDNA
QED-2_noUDG.SGM250-416 calCEQornet ed-DeirT1a1a1b2b2b1a1a1 T-CTS9882T1
QED-4_noUDG.SGF433-641 calCEQornet ed-DeirU3b
QED-12_noUDG.SG outlierF200-650 CEQornet ed-DeirH2a5
QED-7_noUDG.SG outlierF246-405 calCEQornet ed-DeirHV1b