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Phaino, ancient copper mine shaftPhaino, ancient copper mine shaftRoman Water ReservoirRoman Copper Mine / Al-Shoubak

Location:

  • Jordan, Buşayrā
  • geo:30.640036,35.490364
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -3000~ / unknown

Class:

  • Workshop or industry
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=30902

Annotations

 

Source:

  1. F.B. Pyatt, , D. Amos, J.P. Grattan, A.J. Pyatt, C.E. Terrell-Nield „Invertebrates of ancient heavy metal spoil and smelting tip sites in southern Jordan: Their distribution and use as bioindicators of metalliferous pollution derived from ancient sources” in : Journal of Arid Environments, Volume 52, Issue 1, September 2002, pp. 53-62
  2. E. Ben-Yosef, T. E. Levy, T. Higham, M. Najjar, and L. Tauxe, The beginning of Iron Age copper production in the southern Levant: new evidence from Khirbat al-Jariya, Faynan, Jordan, Antiquity, 2010, vol. 84, no. 325, pp. 724–746
  3. Matthias Grawehr, Grawehr, Production of Bronzeworks in the Nabataean Kingdom, Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 9 (2007) pp. 397–403.
  4. http://www.bibleplaces.com/punon/

Nearby

Phaino - Punon

Wadi Faynan, Copper Mine

Phaino - Punon

Ancient Copper mine Khirbat Faynan

Phaino - Punon (1 km)

Water reservoir


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