Avdat or Ovdat (Hebrew: עבדת), and Abdah or Abde (Arabic: عبدة), are the modern names of an archaeological site corresponding to the ancient Nabataean...
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Ein Avdat (Hebrew: עין עבדת) (Arabic: عَيْن عَبْدَة, ʻayn ʻabda Arabic pronunciation: [/ʕajn ʕab.da/]) or Ein Ovdat is a canyon in the Negev Desert of...
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Mediterranean terminus of both the Incense Road and spice trade routes: Avdat, Haluza, Mamshit, and Shivta. As a group, these desert cities demonstrate...
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that supported new urban centres located along the Negev incense route at Avdat (Oboda), Mamshit (Mampsis), Shivta (Sobata), Haluza (Elusa), and Nitzana...
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centuries CE. One such inscription, found near Wadi Rum, is given below: The En Avdat inscription dates to no later than 150 CE, and contains a prayer to the...
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Incense Route and the Desert Cities of the Negev, together with Haluza/Elusa, Avdat and Mamshit/Mampsis. The name Shivta is a modern Hebraization, given by...
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Solar power in Israel (section Carmey Avdat Winery)
Solar Energy was commissioned to build a solar installation for the Carmey Avdat winery in the Negev Desert. The 50 kW peak installation covers the 200-square...
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script are three lines of poetry by a man named Garm(')allāhe found in En Avdat, Israel, and dated to around 125 CE. This is followed by the Namara inscription...
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Nabataean religion (section Avdat)
The Nabataean religion was a form of Arab polytheism practiced in Nabataea, an ancient Arab nation that was well established by the third century BCE and...
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House Youth Hostels Association of India Ireland An Óige Israel Ami'ad Avdat The Heritage House Khan al-Tujjar (Mount Tabor) Khan al-Umdan Sidna Ali...
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hit by earthquakes, the major 7th-century seismic event which destroyed Avdat also leading to the abandonment of this city. Easton's Bible Dictionary...
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locations planned before production commenced. The abandoned Nabataean city of Avdat was used for the scenes with the priests. For most of the actors, who were...
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Incense Route - Desert Cities in the Negev, including Mampsis, Haluza, Avdat, and Shivta, were declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in June 2005...
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importance, UNESCO declared Haluza a World Heritage Site along with Mamshit, Avdat and Shivta. The city is called 'Chellous' (Χελλοὺς) in the Greek text of...
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definite article /ʾal-/ entered the language shortly after this stage. The ʿEn ʿAvdat inscription shows that final [n] had been deleted in undetermined triptotes...
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House Youth Hostels Association of India Ireland An Óige Israel Ami'ad Avdat The Heritage House Khan al-Tujjar (Mount Tabor) Khan al-Umdan Sidna Ali...
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Tourism in Israel (section Ein Avdat)
Ramon Crater or the UNESCO world heritage Nabataean Incense Route (Shivta, Avdat, Mamshit). Eilat, Israel's southernmost city, located on the Red Sea coast...
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attractions, including the ruins of cities on the incense trade route such as Avdat, Shivta (a Unesco World Heritage Site), the Nabataean city of Nitzana, and...
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Negev Desert, Israel Incense Route – Desert Cities in the Negev: Obodas (Avdat), city with Nabataean temple Elusa (Haluza), town, road station Mampshis...
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worshipped as a god by his people. He was buried in the Temple of Oboda in Avdat, where inscriptions have been found referring to "Obodas the god". The kingdom...
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bands The remnants of Mezad Mahmal on the Incense Route between Petra and Avdat. Michael Anenburg; Or M. Bialik; Yevgeny Vapnik; Hazel J. Chapman; Gilad...
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House Youth Hostels Association of India Ireland An Óige Israel Ami'ad Avdat The Heritage House Khan al-Tujjar (Mount Tabor) Khan al-Umdan Sidna Ali...
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"Mahmal Ascent") and is part of the Incense Route that runs between Petra and Avdat. Ma'ale Mahmal is the steep section, where the Incense Route overcomes the...
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languages. A first- or second-century AD Nabataean inscription from Ein Avdat even contains three lines of Arabic poetry, of debated meaning. From the...
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first Nabataean king to be worshipped as a god by the Nabataean people. Avdat was a temple built in the Negev desert by the Nabataeans for commemorating...
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House Youth Hostels Association of India Ireland An Óige Israel Ami'ad Avdat The Heritage House Khan al-Tujjar (Mount Tabor) Khan al-Umdan Sidna Ali...
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flanked by crosses is seen on the sixth-century tombstone of a monk at Avdat in the Negev desert, for example... One issue of bronze coins dated to the...
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most famous sites in Petra, there are also Nabatean complexes at Obodas (Avdat) and residential complexes at Mampsis (Kurnub) and a religious site of et-Tannur...
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