Historical place profile

Tel Erani

One of the largest Early Bronze Age mounds in the southern Levant, located approximately 20 km east of Ashkelon. The site shows signs of habitation as early as the Chalcolithic Era, with a significant remains from the Bronze Age and additional remains from the Iron Age, Persian, Hellenistic, and Islamic periods.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:83213250
Catalogue ID
pleiades:83213250
Place type
settlement
Coordinates
31.611233, 34.785338
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

One of the largest Early Bronze Age mounds in the southern Levant, located approximately 20 km east of Ashkelon. The site shows signs of habitation as early as the Chalcolithic Era, with a significant remains from the Bronze Age and additional remains from the Iron Age, Persian, Hellenistic, and Islamic periods.

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

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Research path

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