Historical place profile
Tel Bet Yerah/Khirbet el-Kerak
An ancient settlement, represented by a massive mound located on the southern coast of the Sea of Galilee, now partly covered by modern structures. Recurrent periods of habitation on the site date from at least the third milennium BCE to Islamic times.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:678333
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:678333
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 32.713858, 35.573386
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient settlement, represented by a massive mound located on the southern coast of the Sea of Galilee, now partly covered by modern structures. Recurrent periods of habitation on the site date from at least the third milennium BCE to Islamic times.
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 69 C4 Philoteria
Source and reuse
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Research path
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