Historical place profile
Tel Michal
A site on the Mediterranean coast of Israel with signs of habitation from the Middle Bronze Age and the Persian through the Roman periods. In the Hellenistic and Roman periods, its purpose was primarily military, and a series of forts occupied the site until around 50 CE. A small watchtower or lighthouse was built on the site in the eighth-ninth centuries CE, after which it was abandoned.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:361164677
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:361164677
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 32.159583, 34.797193
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A site on the Mediterranean coast of Israel with signs of habitation from the Middle Bronze Age and the Persian through the Roman periods. In the Hellenistic and Roman periods, its purpose was primarily military, and a series of forts occupied the site until around 50 CE. A small watchtower or lighthouse was built on the site in the eighth-ninth centuries CE, after which it was abandoned.
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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