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<< Our Photo Pages >> Tel Nitzana - Ancient Village or Settlement in Israel

Submitted by motist on Wednesday, 04 August 2010  Page Views: 6138

Multi-periodSite Name: Tel Nitzana
Country: Israel Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Beer Sheva  Nearest Village: Kmehin
Latitude: 30.876125N  Longitude: 34.432745E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no 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.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitzana_(Nabataean_city)

http://www.mnemotrix.com/adasr/arch.html

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Re: Tel Nitzana by motist on Friday, 22 October 2010
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on the Nessana papyri corpus

http://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10161/619/D_Stroumsa_Rachel_a_200805.pdf?sequence=1
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Re: Tel Nitzana by motist on Friday, 22 October 2010
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http://www.eolss.net/ebooks/Sample%20Chapters/C19/E1-05-06-01.pdf
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Re: Tel Nitzana by motist on Wednesday, 04 August 2010
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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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