Gimtu

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Claudia Horst

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Valeria Vitale, Ryan Horne, Jamie Novotny

Last modified Jan 11, 2025 02:23 PM — History

tags: ANE

Gath, Gat, or Geth (Hebrew: גַּת)) is mentioned in the El-Amarna letters as Gimti/Gintu/Gimtu. It was one of the five Philistine city-states. The town is mentioned in Neo-Assyrian sources; the modern site is Tel es-Safī.

500 km

Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/889522884

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
31.7019809, 34.8474001

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Tel Zafit (2000 BC - 550 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Gimtu (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- תל צפית‎‎ (Tel Tzafit: Modern Hebrew)

Gimtu makes connections with:

Gimtu part of (administrative) Philistia (region) (1200 BC - 550 BC)

Gimtu receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement, tell

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Claudia Horst, Jeffrey Becker, Valeria Vitale, Ryan Horne, and Jamie Novotny, 'Gimtu: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/889522884> [accessed: 03 April 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/889522884 |title=Places: 889522884 (Gimtu) |author=Horst, C. |accessdate=April 3, 2025 6:26 am |publisher=Pleiades}}