Gimtu
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Claudia Horst Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Claudia Horst Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Dec 16, 2020 05:26 AM
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History
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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.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/889522884
31.7019809, 34.8474001
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Tel Zafit (2000 BC - 550 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Gimtu part of (administrative) Philistia (region) (1200 BC - 550 BC)
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Pleiades
Claudia Horst, Jeffrey Becker, Valeria Vitale, Ryan Horne, and Jamie Novotny, 'Gimtu: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/889522884> [accessed: 22 December 2024]
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