Abila (Peraea)
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Abila was an ancient city east of the Jordan River in the Plains of Moab, later Peraea, near Livias, about twelve km northeast of the north shore of the Dead Sea. The site is identified with modern Kh
Tall el-Hammam that is identified by most scholars as Abel-Shittim.
Date palms at the south-west edge of Tall el-Hammam, Jordan
Tell el-Hammam
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Tell el-Hammam is an archaeological site in the Amman Governorate of Jordan, in the eastern part of the lower Jordan Valley 11.7 kilometers east of the Jordan River and not far from its mouth. It lies
Abila (Peraea)
…described as "the border of the land Bīt Ḫumria (Israel)" in the royal annals of Tiglath-Pileser III. Abel-Shittim is identified with the area around Tall el-Hammam, in the Late Bronze Age. Josephus stated that there was in his time a town, Abila, "full of palm trees", at a distance of sixty stadia (9 kilometres…
Tall el-Hammam Excavation-Jordan Valley