Deir Qanoun En Nahr

Coordinates: 33°17′56″N 35°18′53″E / 33.29889°N 35.31472°E / 33.29889; 35.31472
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Deir Qanoun En Nahr
دير قانون النهر
Municipality
UTC+3 (EEST)
Dialing code+9617

Deir Qanoun En Nahr (

Arabic: دير قانون النهر) is a municipality in Southern Lebanon, located in Tyre District, Governorate of South Lebanon
.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer in 1881, Deir Kânûn meant: the convent of the rule (canon).[1]

History

In the early 1860s, Ernest Renan noted here a decorated Sarcophagus.[2]

In 1875,

Metualis.[3] He further noted: "Here I saw an ancient rock-cut basin, many cut-stones built up in private houses or forming the enclosure of gardens and cisterns, and, on the surface of a block lying on the ground, figures carved, to the number of five, each in a different frame. Unfortunately they are much mutilated by time and rough usage. The best preserved has the head surmounted by the high Egyptian coiffure known under the name of pschent, and holds in one hand a sort of curved stick."[4]

In 1881, the

Metawileh; water supply from springs, birket, and cisterns."[5]

References

  1. ^ Palmer, 1881, p. 20
  2. ^ Renan, 1864, p. 642
  3. ^ Guérin, 1880, pp. 250-251
  4. ^ Guérin, 1880, pp. 250-251; as translated by Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 115
  5. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 91

Bibliography

  • Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). Vol. 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
  • Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • Renan, E. (1864). Mission de Phénicie (in French). Paris: Imprimerie impériale.

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