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Multi-periodSite Name: Tel NitzanaCountry: Israel Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Beer Sheva Nearest Village: Kmehin
Latitude: 30.876125N Longitude: 34.432745E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Nitzana (Hebrew: ניצנה; transliterated at the site as "Nizana") is an ancient Nabataean city located in the Negev desert in Israel close to the Egyptian border.
It may have been a station on the eastern branch of the ancient Incense Route, serving pilgrims and merchants travelling to Sinai or central Egypt. The Nabataean towns of the Negev were typically founded around the first century BC, conquered by Romans two centuries later, and inhabited by Byzantine Christians since the 4th century until the invasion and the Muslim conquest of Syria in the 7th century. Relatively few stones remain on the site because most were recycled into buildings in Gaza.
Nessana papyri
In the 1930s a major trove of papyri was discovered at this site, revealing a wealth of information about day-to-day life in Nabataean society between 505 and 689 CE. They show that the inhabitants of the city had become Christianised and Romanised in the early centuries CE, as well as the arrival of a Byzantine phylarchate. Many names of ancient cities in the Negev come only from these documents. One of the last of the papyri describes coinage struck and soldiers employed by 'Abd al-Malik, replacing the dying Roman institutions with a fresh Ummayad power structure.
More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitzana_(Nabataean_city)
http://www.mnemotrix.com/adasr/arch.html
http://www.israelimages.com/searchresult.php?comefrom=catsub&src_text_arr%5B%5D=255
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