Ben Shemen Forest
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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May 06, 2024 10:59 PM
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Ben Shemen Forest is the largest forest in Central Israel and it contains several archaeological sites, including Bir a Shemi, Tel Gimzo, Tel Hadid, and several Hasmonean-period tombs.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413309736
31.94454115, 34.94298475
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location of Ben Shemen (10000 BC - Present) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- CIGS location of Ben Shemen (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Ben Shemen (Modern Hebrew)
- בן שמן (Ben Shemen: Ancient Hebrew, modern)
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findspot, place of finding, forest
A small fragment of an Assyrian stele with an Akkadian inscription was found in the Ben Shemen Forest. It presumably comes from one of the ancient cities located within it, possibly Tel Hadid. The monument probably dates to the reign of the 7th-century B.C. king Esarhaddon.
Jamie Novotny, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Ben Shemen Forest: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413309736> [accessed: 22 November 2024]
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