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ID: 4012641
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/4012641
 
Record Type: physical
Hierarchy of Mount Zion (hill)  Mount Zion (hill)

Note: The easternmost of 2 hills of ancient Jerusalem; site of Jebusite city captured by David, king of Israel 10th cen. BC; appears to be pre-Israelite Canaanite name of hill upon which Jerusalem was built; Biblical usage refers to city of Jerusalem.

Names:
Mount Zion (preferred,C,O)
Mevaseret Zion (C,U,English-P)
מבשרת ציון (C,U,Hebrew )

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Yisra'el (nation)  ........  Yisra'el (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Yerushalayim (national district)  ............  Yerushalayim (national district) (P)
Hierarchy of Yerushalayim (inhabited place)  ................  Yerushalayim (inhabited place) (P)
Hierarchy of Mount Zion (hill)  ....................  Mount Zion (hill) (P)

Place Types:
hill (preferred, C)
hills (C)

Sources and Contributors:
מבשרת ציון..........  [IMJ]
.......................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Mevaseret Zion..........  [IMJ Preferred]
.............................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Mount Zion..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Baedekers: Israel (1983) 157
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 922
.......................  Excavations in Holy Land (1975)
.......................  Hoade, Guide to Holy Land (1973)
.......................  Petit Robert II, Noms (1989)
.......................  Vilnay, Guide to Israel (1971)
Subject: .....  [BHA, IMJ, VP]
..................  Baedekers: Israel (1983) 157
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 922
..................  Excavations in Holy Land (1975)
..................  Hoade, Guide to Holy Land (1973)
..................  Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................  Petit Robert II, Noms (1989)
..................  Vilnay, Guide to Israel (1971)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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