Socho
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: B. Isaac Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: B. Isaac Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 15, 2020 06:28 PM
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History
An Iron Age site in the Valley of Elah identified as the Biblical town of Socho.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/688033
31.6824908, 34.9738148
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Tel Socho (1200 BC - 550 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- חרבות שכה (H̱orvot Sokho: Modern Hebrew)
- خربة عباد (Khirbet 'Abbad: Arabic, modern)
- خربة شويكة (Khirbet Shuweikah: Arabic, modern)
- Socho (330 BC - AD 640)
- שוכה (Socho: Ancient Hebrew, 1200 BC - 550 BC)
- שֹׂכֹה (Sochoh: Ancient Hebrew, 1200 BC - 550 BC)
- Σοκχωθ (Sochōth: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - 30 BC)
- Σοκχωθ (Sokchōth: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - 30 BC)
- שׂוֹכוֹ (Sōchō: Ancient Hebrew, 1200 BC - 550 BC)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 70 F2 Socho
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Horvat Sokho/Khirbet Shuweika
B. Isaac, DARMC, Gabriel Mckee, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Socho: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/688033> [accessed: 24 April 2024]
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