Historical place profile
Tel Jatt
A site between the Sharon Plain and the Samarian Hills on which the modern town of Jatt is built. The site contains numerous Bronze Age burials and signs of habitation as late as the Bronze Age. The site has been proposed as a possible location for the town of Ginti-kirmil mentioned in the Amarna letters.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:718809993
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:718809993
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 32.973961, 35.230555
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A site between the Sharon Plain and the Samarian Hills on which the modern town of Jatt is built. The site contains numerous Bronze Age burials and signs of habitation as late as the Bronze Age. The site has been proposed as a possible location for the town of Ginti-kirmil mentioned in the Amarna letters.
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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