Khirbet Tibnah

Coordinates: 32°00′30″N 35°06′40″E / 32.00833°N 35.11111°E / 32.00833; 35.11111
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Khirbet Tibnah, West Bank
Khirbet Tibnah is located in the West Bank
Khirbet Tibnah
Shown within the West Bank
Coordinates32°00′30″N 35°06′40″E / 32.00833°N 35.11111°E / 32.00833; 35.11111
Grid position16035/15725 PAL

Khirbet Tibnah (also Tibneh[1]), is located on the West Bank, between the villages Deir Nidham and Nabi Salih.

History

Antiquity

Mikveh (Jewish ritual bath)

Timnath-serah, now known as the ruin (khirba in Arabic) of Tibnah (Tibneh) in Samaria.[2] He also quoted Eusebius who wrote at the beginning of the 4th century that the tomb of Joshua was in his time still visited at a place near the village.[2]

Roman and Byzantine periods

The main tomb at the Jewish necropolis at Khirbet Tibnah

Ceramics from the late Roman and the Byzantine eras have been found here (at grid 1603/1573).[3]

On the north slope of the hill south of Khirbet Tibnah lies a Jewish

ossuaries. In the valley just below the necropolis there is a large mikveh with two entrances.[4]

Crusader period

Khirbet Tibnah is one of the places suggested identified with the Crusader Tyberie.[5]

Ottoman period

Tibneh in 1882[6]

In 1596, the Tibnah (Tibya) site was listed as village in the

Muslim. The Ottoman authority levied a 33.3% taxation on agricultural products produced by the villagers (primarily on wheat, barley, and olives), besides a marriage tax and supplement tax on goats and beehives. Total revenues accruing from the village of Tibna for that year amounted to 3700 akçe.[7]

Kefr Ishu'a, or Joshua's Village.[citation needed
]

Both in 1863 and in 1870 Guérin visited, and described several ruins.[8] Khirbet Tibnah is described in 1882 as a tell overlooking a deep valley (Wady Reiya) on the north and the ancient Roman road to the south. A cemetery was situated on a flat hill nearby, and to the northwest, the spring of Ein Tibnah emerged from a rocky channel. On the southwest was an oak tree some 30 or 40 feet high, and two wells, one of them dry. West of the tree were traces of ruins believed to be those of an Arab village.[9]

Mandate period

The village was not inhabited in the late mandatory period.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ meaning "straw", Palmer, 1881, p. 246
  2. ^ a b Schürer, 1891, p. 158, note 438.
  3. ^ Dauphin, 1998, p. 826
  4. ^ Raviv, Dvir (2017). "שרידים מתקופת בית שני עד מרד בר כוכבא בתל תמנה שבדרום השומרון" (PDF). במעבה ההר. 7 (7): 13–51 – via כתב עת לארכיאולוגיה והיסטוריה של אזור ההר.
  5. ^ Röhricht, 1887, p. 222; cited in Finkelstein, 1997, p. 367
  6. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, p. 375
  7. ^ a b Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 114
  8. ^ Guérin, 1875, pp. 89-93
  9. ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, p. 374

Bibliography

External links

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