Jattir
Alternative name | Khirbet Attir |
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Location | Southern District |
Coordinates | 31°21′09″N 35°00′58″E / 31.35250°N 35.01611°E |
Type | settlement |
History | |
Periods | Chalcolithic to Mamluk period |
Cultures | Byzantine |
Site notes | |
Public access | Yes |
Jattir (Hebrew יַתִּר, pronounced Yattir) is a town in Judea mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible. It was known as Iethira during the 4th century CE, when it was a Christian town. It is identified with Horvat Yattir/Khirbet Attir, an archeological site in the southern Hebron Hills, located in modern day Israel.
Ancient sources
Hebrew Bible
Some 400 years later, the Book of Kings mentions that
Onomasticon
In the early-4th century CE, Greek scholar Eusebius mentioned the town twice in his Onomasticon: "Ietheira is now a very large village in the interior of Daroma, situated near Malaatha", and later, "It is now the very large village of Ietheira, about twenty miles from Eleutheropolis, wholly Christian, in the inner Daroma, near Malatha."[2]
Madaba Map
The town is depicted on the seventh-century Madaba Map.[2]
Archeological site
Jattir was identified by Edward Robinson with Khirbet Attir (Horvat Yattir), southwest of Hebron in the West Bank.[3] Félix-Marie Abel noted that there are visible Roman and Byzantine remnants at the site, including a church; moreover, he wrote that the site dominates its surroundings.[4]
A series of excavations was conducted at the site between 1995 and 1999. It appears that the site have been occupied during the
Other identifications
Victor Guérin thought that Jattir was identical with the village of Yater in Lebanon.[5]
See also
References
- ^ "Israel News | Online Israeli News Covering Israel & the Jewish World - JPost". Archived from the original on 2012-07-08. Retrieved 2018-09-18.
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- ^ Robinson and Smith, 1841, vol 3, Appendix 2, p. 116
- ^ F.-M. Abel, Géographie de la Palestine 2, 3rd ed. 1967, 356
- ^ Guerin, 1880, pp. 413-4; in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 260
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.
- Robinson, E.; Smith, E. (1841). Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petraea: A Journal of Travels in the year 1838. Vol. 3. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.