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    Avdat (Hebrew: עבדת, Arabic: عبدة, Abdah), also known as Abdah and Ovdat and Eboda, is a site of a ruined Nabataean city in the Negev desert in southern...
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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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    Arabic calques of earlier Canaanite place names.[failed verification] The En Avdat inscription dates to no later than 150 CE, and contains a prayer to the...
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    research team headed by Michael Evenari set up a research station near Avdat (Evenari, Shenan and Tadmor 1971). He focused on the relevance of runoff...
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    that supported new urban centers located along the Negev incense route at Avdat, Mamshit, Shivta, Haluza (Elusa), and Nitzana. The Nabateans controlled...
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Flash flood in Ein Avdat, Negev, Israel...
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  • Forum Baths in Trier, Germany Weißenburg Badenweiler Thermae [de] Aquincum Avdat Ashkelon Beit She'an Caesarea Maritima Ir Ovot Jerusalem Mamshit Masada...
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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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  • 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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    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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    became the first Nabataean king to be worshipped as a god by his people. Avdat was a temple built in the Negev desert by the Nabataeans to commemorate...
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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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    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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    "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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  • locations planned before production commenced. The abandoned Nabataean city of Avdat was used for the scenes with the Roman priests. For most of the actors,...
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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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    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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    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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    Judah in the Negev settled by the Qedarites, at the site of present-day Avdat, and returning with a booty of frankincense, myrrh and 500 talents of silver...
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    The official citation reads: The four Nabatean towns of Haluza, Mamshit, Avdat and Shivta, along with associated fortresses and agricultural landscapes...
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    drawing Petroglyphs from Mount Mihya in the Negev (Lipa Gal Lookout near Avdat) depicting horned animals, probably ibex Lachish Lachish letters Lachish...
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    Obodas was buried in the Negev, at a place that was renamed in his honour, Avdat. He was succeeded by his brother Aretas III. List of Nabataean kings This...
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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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    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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