Vici.org
No images available yet. Please add images related to this place.

Surroundings:

Phaino, ancient copper minePhaino, ancient copper mine shaftPhaino, ancient copper mine shaftRoman Water Reservoir

Location:

  • Jordan, Al Qurayqarah
  • geo:30.681061,35.436169
  • Exact location

Period or year:

  • -9xx?~ / unknown

Class:

  • Castle
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=98764

Annotations

  1. Excavations at Khirbat en-Nahas, 2002–2009: An Iron Age Copper Production Center in the Lowlands of Edom [Pp. 89-245 in New Insights into the Iron Age Archaeology of Edom, Southern Jordan (2014)]   Erez Ben-Yosef, Thomas E Levy, Aaron D Gidding.     https://www.academia.edu/32347760/Excavations_at_Khirbat_en_Nahas_2002_2009_An_Iron_Age_Copper_Production_Center_in_the_Lowlands_of_Edom_Pp_89_245_in_New_Insights_into_the_Iron_Age_Archaeology_of_Edom_Southern_Jordan_2014_

  2. Glueck, Nelson. “Explorations in Eastern Palestine, II.” The Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research, vol. 15, 1934, pp. ix–202. JSTOR, site 10  p. 26 - 29    https://doi.org/10.2307/3768504

Nearby

Khirbat en Nahas

Iron Age Copper smelting complex.

Kherbet el Jariya (3 km)

Iron age settlement/smelting site

Kherbet el Ghuweiba (4 km)

Iron age settlements/smelting sites both sides of the Wadi Ghuweib.


This object was added by p. jeffries on 2024-10-21. Last update by p. jeffries on 2026-03-28. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/98764 . Download as RDF/XML, KML.
Annotation available using the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. Metadata available using the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication, unless it is explicitly stated otherwise.

Vici.org partners:

Livius.org: articles on ancient history   Rijksmuseum van Oudheden