Historical place profile
El-‘Iraq
At modern El-‘Iraq in Jordan's Karak region, archaeologists have identified Byzantine pottery, architecture (including a church), and inscriptions. They argue, based on the archaeology and on the relative placement of other contemporary settlements on the Madaba map, that this site should be identified as ancient Tharais.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:699913
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:699913
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement
- Coordinates
- 31.091385, 35.634276
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
At modern El-‘Iraq in Jordan's Karak region, archaeologists have identified Byzantine pottery, architecture (including a church), and inscriptions. They argue, based on the archaeology and on the relative placement of other contemporary settlements on the Madaba map, that this site should be identified as ancient Tharais.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 71 Tharais
Source and reuse
This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.
Research path
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