Cave of Letters
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 27, 2018 04:57 PM
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History
Cave in the Nahal Hever near the western bank of the Dead Sea. In 1960-61, Yigael Yadin excavated a number of papyri from the cave, including documents related to the Bar Kokhba Revolt and the archive of Babatha.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/363078283
31.4326732, 35.3429429
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Cave of Letters (30 BC - AD 300)
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- See Further:
Pleiades
Gabriel Mckee, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Cave of Letters: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/363078283> [accessed: 26 September 2023]
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