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Sela

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jamie Novotny

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Jan 04, 2024 03:05 PM — History

tags: ANE

Sela (also as-Silaʿ and es-Selaʿ) was the the capital of the land Edom. The city is equated with the biblical Joktheel/Jokteel/Jectehel.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/86623849

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
30.7504121, 35.7265981

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of Sela (720 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Selaʾ (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- as-Silaʿ (Arabic, modern)
- es-Selaʿ (Arabic, modern)

Sela makes connections with:

None

Sela receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement, monument

References:

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

The Neo-Babylonian king Nabonidus had a relief and inscription carved on one of the rock faces near that city.

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Sela: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/86623849> [accessed: 22 November 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/86623849 |title=Places: 86623849 (Sela) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=November 22, 2024 11:12 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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