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Relief in Abu Simbel depicting the city of Kadesh.The river Orontes and Tell KadeshThe plain of KadeshRamses II at the Battle of Kadesh

Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Tall an Nabī Mandū
  • geo:34.557812,36.5196
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -3000~ / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=21291

Annotations

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. 9
  2. Peter Pfälzner: Levantine Kingdoms of the Late Bronze Age, in: Originalveröffentlichung in: A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (eds. D.T. Potts), Oxford 2012, pp. 770-796
  3. http://archive.archaeology.org/1205/features/tel_kedesh_mound_upper_galilee_israel.html
  4. Graham Philip, The Tell Nebi Mend Post-Excavation and Publication Project (Chalcolithic-Early Bronze Age) - https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/directory/view/?mode=project&id=390

Nearby

Battle of Kadesh (Qadesh) (1 km)

The Battle of Kadesh took place between the forces of the Egyptian Empire under Ramesses II and the Hittite Empire under Muwatalli II at the city of Kadesh on the Orontes Riverr the modern Syrian-Lebanese border

Laodicea ad Libanum (2 km)

OmnesViae import TPPlace512

Semaqiyat (5 km)

Station


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