Ain Dara
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Dec 17, 2020 04:54 PM
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History
Ain Dara, located northwest of Aleppo, Syria, is noted for the remains of an Iron Age Syro-Hittite temple.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658369
36.4607892161, 36.8531172882
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- OSM location of Ain Dara (2000 BC - 700 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Ain Dara (English, modern)
- ‘Ayn Dārah (Ayn Darah: English, modern)
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- Ain Dara temple located at Ain Dara (unspecified date range)
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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 67 D4 Ain Dara
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ain Dara The remains of a temple at Ain Dara provide interesting early indications of later temple plans, such as that of the temple of Jerusalem. The Ain Dara temple existed during the transition from Bronze to Iron Ages.
Turkish military activity reportedly inflicted heavy damage to the archaeological site on 27 January 2018.
T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier, DARMC, M. Ballance, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Ain Dara: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658369> [accessed: 30 January 2025]
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