Machairous
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S.T. Parker Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: S.T. Parker Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Apr 11, 2022 06:08 AM
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History
A fortified hilltop palace in Jordan located southeast of the mouth of the Jordan river on the eastern side of the Dead Sea.
Show place in AWMC's Antiquity À-la-carte, Google Earth, or Pelagios' Peripleo.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697700
31.5673651297, 35.6241088966
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (30 BC - AD 300)
- OSM location of Machaerus (30 BC - AD 226)
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- Machairous (30 BC - AD 300)
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settlement, fort, tower
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 71 B2 Machairous
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Mekawer
S.T. Parker, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Machairous: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697700> [accessed: 19 May 2022]
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