Historical place profile
Ṣuwwānet eth-Thanīya
Settlement area 2.8km north of the center of modern Jericho with archaeological remains from the Early Roman period, Iron Age, and Late Chalcolithic. The site was at least partially destroyed by agriculture and construction of a road in the area.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:596637094
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:596637094
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 31.874280, 35.495204
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Settlement area 2.8km north of the center of modern Jericho with archaeological remains from the Early Roman period, Iron Age, and Late Chalcolithic. The site was at least partially destroyed by agriculture and construction of a road in the area.
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: Pleiades
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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