Tell Umm Amer
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
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The archaeological site of Tell Umm Amer in the Gaza Strip is included on the Madaba Map under the name "Tabatha". The site was the birthplace in 291 CE of Saint Hilarion who founded an eponymous monastery there. The monastery was destroyed in 614.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/458345971
31.4473110241, 34.3664024696
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Monastery of Saint-Hilarion (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Tell Umm Amer (English, unspecified date range)
- Tell Umm el-ʿAmr (English, unspecified date range)
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monastery, archaeological site
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The Saint Hilarion Monastery/ Tell Umm Amer was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in July 2024.
Jeffrey Becker, 'Tell Umm Amer: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/458345971> [accessed: 23 November 2024]
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