What is "sarepta"

Sarepta (modern Sarafand, Lebanon) was a Phoenician city on the Mediterranean coast between Sidon and Tyre, also known biblically as 'Zarephath'. Most of the objects by which Phoenician culture is characterised are those that have been recovered scattered among Phoenician colonies and trading posts; such carefully excavated colonial sites are in Spain, Sicily, Sardinia and Tunisia. The sites of many Phoenician cities, like Sidon and Tyre, by contrast, are still occupied, unavailable to archaeology except in highly restricted chance sites, usually much disturbed. Sarepta is the exception, the one Phoenician city in the heartland of the culture that has been unearthed and thoroughly studied.

Sarepta was an ancient Phoenician city.

Sarepta may also refer to:

Places:

• Sarepta, Louisiana, a town
• Sarepta, Mississippi, an unincorporated community
• Sarepta, a community within the town of Bluewater, Ontario, Canada
• Sarepta, a suburb of Cape Town, Western Cape province, South Africa
• Sarepta, a village west of Karaganda, once location of a large broadcasting station

Other uses:

• Sarepta Therapeutics, an American medical research and drug development company

• , a Royal Navy air station from 1917 to 1959, when it was renamed

• S. M. I. Henry (1839–1900), a Woman's Christian Temperance Union leader