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Surroundings:

Tel TsafBronze axesBronze statue of the Roman Emperor HadrianRoman milestonePella/Tabaqat Fahl, Late bronze Mycenaean potteryPella/Tabaqat Fahl, Late bronze Mycenaean potteryPella/Tabaqat Fahl, Middle bronze Mycenaean alabaster vessel

Location:

  • Jordan, Maqām Sharḩabīl
  • geo:32.405224,35.577164
  • Location uncertain

Period or year:

  • -2000 / -1200

Class:

  • Rural settlement
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=33204

Annotations

EBIV to MBII small hamlet inhabited by 100-150 farmers.

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. 8
  2. Steven E. Falconer, Bonnie Magness-Gardiner and Mary C. Metzger, Preliminary Report of the First Season of the Tell el-Hayyat Project, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research No. 255 (Summer, 1984), pp. 49-74

Relevant museums

Amman, Jordan Museum

The new historical museum of Jordan; substantial archaeological collection.


Nearby

Tell el-Hayyat (1 km)

Village site located southwest of Pella (Tabaqat Fahl in Jordan). It was inhabited during the Early and Middle Bronze Age.

Tel Gama (2 km)

Tel Gama is identified with the Canaanite city of Yarza {Araza} pr Yursa/Arsa/Yarda/Orda. Tell Jemmeh. Tel Gamma or Tel Re'im

Tel Tsaf (2 km)

Middle Chalcolithic settlement in Jordan Valley near the city of Beit Shean.


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