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DigsSite Name: Khirbet RizqehCountry: Jordan
NOTE: This site is 162.15 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Nearest Town: 'Aqaba Nearest Village: Rum
Latitude: 29.381796N Longitude: 35.350340E
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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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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 |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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Khirbet Rizkeh is situated south of the well known Wadi Rum in south Jordan .
In the 60's of the 20Th century a British archaeologist the late Mrs. Diana Kirkbride PhD. excavated an open air sanctuary with big monoliths , flint tools ,Ground stone tools and "miracle bowls" dated to the late Neolithic era.
Khirbet Rizqeh, is a unique ritual site in the desert east of Aqaba. At Rizqeh such vessels appear in great number (Kirkbride 1969). One of these vessels has been called "miracle bowl", since one fragment was found when the site was discovered, and a second, joining part five months later in the mountains (Kirkbride 1969,192).
Dr. Uzi Avner and I visited the site in June 2006 and found that not much left as the carved monoliths been removed in the 60's and it is stored in the Rockefeller museum in Jerusalem.
For more about Mrs. D. Kirkbride PhD. see her obituary.
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