Sidon
- Ancient name
- Sidon
- Modern name
- Sayda
- Modern country
- Lebanon
- Coordinates
- 33.56, 35.37
Sidon (now Sayda, Lebanon), was a port along the Levantine coast south of Beirut. It is sometimes conflated with its neigbor Saretta in copies of La sfera (both the text and the maps). Campbell #1515.
This toponym does not appear in the poem, only on the maps accompanying it.
Map of the location P128
Variant spellings of Sidon in Sfera manuscripts
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- Suggested citation
- Beneš, Carrie. “Sidon.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, February 10, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/sidon/.