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Multi-periodSite Name: Tas-Silg
Country: Malta Island: Mainland Type: Ancient Temple
Nearest Town: Marsaxlokk  Nearest Village: Zetjun
Latitude: 35.845900N  Longitude: 14.552300E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Tas-Silg
Tas-Silg submitted by AlexHunger : Tas-Silg is an ancient Maltese Temple just east of Marsaxlokk. It was subsequently re-used and remodelled by the Phoenicians and the Romans and possibly christians. The Phoenicians conducted human sacrifices there. Only the foundation of the original Maltese neolithic temple remain. See arced stones. The rest of the site with remains of colonnades is quite interesting. The site is normally closed... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Temple in Malta. The temple of Tas-Silg is on a rounded hilltop overlooking Marsaxlokk Bay and is named after the chapel on its southern slopes dedicated to Madonna Tas-Silg ("Our Lady of the Snows").

Excavation in the mid 60s of the Punic temple of Astarte and later temples and the 4th century CE monastery at this site revealed a prehistoric D-shaped setting of large blocks, the foundation of the outer wall of a 4-apse temple of the Tarxien phase. To the east the wall is interrupted by a threshold slab pierced by 3 libation holes. To the west is a concave setting which may be the foundations of a facade. These two features appear to suggest that there were 2 entrances facing in opposite directions, a strange and unique feature if correct. A 'fat lady' statue was found which had been deliberately defaced and buried in a hollow where one of the facade blocks had been removed.

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Tas-Silg
Tas-Silg submitted by AlexHunger : Ruins of Roman Temple and early Christian Basilica on southern Coast of Malta. Malta Heritage gives very restricted access to this site. This site has a very long history. The neolithic maltese temple forms the foundations. The Carthagenians/Phoenicians set up a temple to Ashtarte and even carried out human sacrifice at this site. After Roman conquest, the temple was dedicated to Venus and then ... (Vote or comment on this photo)

Tas-Silg
Tas-Silg submitted by KaiHofmann : Site in Mainland Malta, Tas-Silg (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Tas-Silg submitted by KaiHofmann (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Tas-Silg submitted by KaiHofmann (Vote or comment on this photo)

Tas-Silg
Tas-Silg submitted by KaiHofmann : Site in Mainland Malta, Tas-Silg

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