Kuntillat 'Ajrud
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
Dec 30, 2023 10:48 AM
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History
A late ninth to early eighth century BC site located in the northeastern part of the Sinai peninsula, the fortress-like Kuntillat ‘Ajrud may have been a sanctuary. Hebrew and Phoenician inscriptions have been identified at the site.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/686550284
30.193056, 34.421111
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Kuntillet 'Ajrud (1200 BC - 550 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- كنتلة قرية (Kuntillat Jurayyah: Arabic, modern)
- كونتيلة عجرود (Kuntillet 'Ajrud: Arabic, modern)
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sanctuary (religious center), shrine
- See Further:
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- Meshel et al. 2012 Meshel, Zeev. 2012. Kuntillet ‘Ajrud: An Iron Age II Religious Site on the Judah-Sinai Border. Jerusalem : Israel Exploration Society.
- Schmidt 2013 Schmidt, Brian B., ed. 2013. Kuntillat 'Ajrud: Iron Age Inscriptions and Iconography. Maarav 20:1. Rolling Hills Estates, CA: Western Academic Press.
- Wikipedia (English) Kuntillet Ajrud
- Related:
Pleiades
Gabriel Mckee, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Kuntillat 'Ajrud: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/686550284> [accessed: 18 April 2024]
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