Ancient population · Antiquity
Levant Beirut Hellenistic (Antiquity)
Levant_Beirut_Hellenistic
Levant Beirut Hellenistic (Antiquity) is an ancient population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Levant_Beirut_Hellenistic), with 2 samples from Beirut, Lebanon, dated to c. 210–90 BCE.
Among ancient populations it sits closest to Hellenistic (Antiquity, Lebanon), Levant (Medieval, Lebanon) and Lebanon (Medieval); the nearest living populations are Lebanese Orthodox Christian Koura, Karaite Iraq and Lebanese Sunni Muslim Dinniyeh.
Its men carry Y-DNA haplogroup Q1b.
- Period
- Antiquity
- Date
- c. 210–90 BCE
- Country
- Lebanon
- Origin
- Beirut, Lebanon
- Sampled near
- Beirut 33.90, 35.51
- Samples
- 2
- Published in
- HaberTyler-SmithAJHG2020
- Catalogue
Levant_Beirut_Hellenistic
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.
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hellenistic (Antiquity, Lebanon)Lebanon_Hellenistic | 2.65 |
| 2 | Levant (Medieval, Lebanon)Levant_LBN_MA | 2.90 |
| 3 | Lebanon (Medieval)Lebanon_Medieval | 2.99 |
| 4 | Ej Jaouze Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon)Lebanon_EjJaouze_Phoenician | 2.99 |
| 5 | Levant Beirut IAIII (Iron Age)Levant_Beirut_IAIII | 3.19 |
| 6 | Chhim Phoenician (Iron Age, Lebanon)Lebanon_Chhim_Phoenician | 3.20 |
| 7 | Lebanese Christian Greek OrthodoxLebanese_Christian_Greek_Orthodox | 3.20 |
| 8 | Tell Atchana (Middle–Late Bronze Age, Turkey)Turkey_TellAtchana_MLBA | 3.26 |
| 9 | Viminacium Roman elite 2 (Antiquity, Serbia)Serbia_Viminacium_Roman_elite_2 | 3.28 |
| 10 | Lebanese Christian MaroniteLebanese_Christian_Maronite | 3.32 |
| # | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lebanese Orthodox Christian KouraLebanese_Orthodox_Christian_Koura | 2.80 |
| 2 | Karaite IraqKaraite_Iraq | 2.99 |
| 3 | Lebanese Sunni Muslim DinniyehLebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Dinniyeh | 3.01 |
| 4 | Lebanese Maronite Christian ZghartaLebanese_Maronite_Christian_Zgharta | 3.07 |
| 5 | Lebanese Shia Muslim BeirutLebanese_Shia_Muslim_Beirut | 3.09 |
| 6 | Karaite EgyptKaraite_Egypt | 3.12 |
| 7 | Lebanese DruzeLebanese_Druze | 3.20 |
| 8 | Lebanese ChristianLebanese_Christian | 3.28 |
| 9 | AlawiteAlawite | 3.31 |
| 10 | Lebanese Sunni Muslim BeirutLebanese_Sunni_Muslim_Beirut | 3.32 |
Haplogroups
Individuals 2
The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.
| Sample | Sex | Date | Site | Y-DNA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
SFI-20 | F | 175 calBCE - 8 calCE | Beirut | |
SFI-5 | M | 354-56 calBCE | Beirut | Q1b |