Historical place profile
Tell el-Heir
An ancient site in the Sinai that was the location of a series of successive fortresses from the Persian through the Roman periods. It may be identifiable with the Greek name Magdolos and/or the Hebrew name Migdol. There is also some speculation that much earlier textual evidence for a fortification of Ramses III should be tied to this site as well.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:727152
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:727152
- Place type
- fort-2, settlement
- Coordinates
- 30.967368, 32.493003
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient site in the Sinai that was the location of a series of successive fortresses from the Persian through the Roman periods. It may be identifiable with the Greek name Magdolos and/or the Hebrew name Migdol. There is also some speculation that much earlier textual evidence for a fortification of Ramses III should be tied to this site as well.
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 74 G3 Magdolos
Source and reuse
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Research path
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