Lehun
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S.T. Parker
Creators: S.T. Parker
Contributors:
R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa
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Jan 04, 2020 08:49 PM
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History
An ancient site located on the northern plateau of the Wadi Mujib in modern Jordan. Under excavation since the 1970s, the site has so far provided evidence for human activity from the prehistoric period through the Islamic.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697695
31.459504, 35.849951
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 20593 (30 BC - AD 300)
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- al-Lahūn (Modern Standard Arabic, AD 1918 - AD 2000)
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sanctuary (religious center), mosque, church, monastery (deprecated), settlement, fort, tower (deprecated)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 71 B3 Lehun
Alternate modern names, following the excavators' website:
- Lahun
- al-Lahun
- Khirbet Lahun
S.T. Parker, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Lehun: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697695> [accessed: 31 January 2023]
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