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Surroundings:

Timna, copper workshopShrine East to the copper workshopChalcolithic copper mine in TimnaChalcolithic copper mine in TimnaTimna, copper workshopTimna, Mining toolsTimna, Hathor TempleRock engraving, nursing scene

Location:

  • Israel, Elifaz
  • geo:29.800833,34.947498
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Class:

  • Relief, votiv stone or altar
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=38935

Annotations

T he name of this site came from the drawings of Egyptian chariots, dated to the XII-XIII centuries BC. There are depicted  armed Egyptian  soldiers,  and mining workers and hunters that came from nearby Midian and animals.

See:

  1. http://www.biblewalks.com/Sites/Timna.html

Nearby

Timna Valley (1 km)

Ancient copper workshop

Timna, Temple (1 km)

The miners` shrine - early semitic type of the temple.

Timna Valley, Copper Mine (1 km)

Egyptian copper mine


This object was added by Elżbieta on 2017-03-18. Last update by Elżbieta on 2017-03-18. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/38935 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
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