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Surroundings:

Tulaylat al-Ghassul, Infant burialView from the Mount NeboMount Nebo - inside the churchView from the Mount NeboMount Nebo - inside the churchView from the Mount NeboByzantine church on the Mount NeboDirections fro the Mount NeboNewsByzantine church - Scale modelMore news about NeboByzantine church - Scale modelDecoration of Byzantine church at NeboByzantine church on the Mount NeboFloor Mosaics - Nebo churchByzantine church and monastery on the Mount NeboMosaics - Byzantine churchByzantine church on the Mount NeboMount Nebo, Capital from the Moses church Byzantine monastery on the Mount Nebo - remainsMount Nebo, Model of the Moses churchView from the Mount NeboMount Nebo - inside the churchMount Nebo, Mosaic from the Al-Mukhayyat monastery, jar with grapes

Location:

  • Jordan, Ar Rawḑah
  • geo:31.819281,35.671799
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Class:

  • City
  • invisible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=11145

Annotations

Tell Iktanu was a viilage in the Jordan Valley northeast of the Dead Sea in the Early Bronze Age IV (2200-2100  The settlement was planned. Narrow streets separated houses with great courtyards and industrial parts. Village was non-fortified. Inhabitants kept goat, cattle, skeep and hunted as well.

Sources:

  1. Piotr Bienkowski , Jordan: Crossroads of the Near East in: Treasures from an Ancient Land: The Art of Jordan, Piotr Bienkowski eds., Stroud, UK: Alan Sutton 1991, p. 7

Relevant museums

Amman, Jordan Museum

The new historical museum of Jordan; substantial archaeological collection.


Nearby

Tall el-Hammam - Temple (2 km)

Abel Shittim, Ha-Shittim - Biblical town.

Tall el-Hammam (2 km)

The Palace

Tell al-Hammam - Sodoma ? (2 km)

Tell al-Hammam - Sodoma ?


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