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ID: 7030361
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7030361
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Sharuhen (lost settlement)  Sharuhen (lost settlement)

Note: Known from documentation, was an ancient town in the Negev desert. Said to have been fortified by the Hyksos, after they had been expelled from Egypt in 16th century BCE; after a siege, the forces of Pharaoh Ahmose I razed the town. Location may have been Tel el-Ajjul or Tel el-Far'ah.

Names:
Sharuhen (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Israel (nation)  ........  Israel (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Sharuhen (lost settlement)  ............  Sharuhen (lost settlement) (P)

Place Types:
lost settlement (preferred, C)

Related geographic places:
possibly identified as ....  Tel el-Ajjul .......... (deserted settlement)
........................................  (World, Asia, Gaza Strip) [7030360]
possibly identified as ....  Tell el-Far'ah .......... (deserted settlement)
........................................  (World, Asia, Gaza Strip) [7593949]

Sources and Contributors:
Sharuhen..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Tell el-Far'ah, Archaeology Timeline (2003-) accessed 4 August 2004
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Tell el-Far'ah, Archaeology Timeline (2003-) accessed 4 August 2004
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
..........  Tell el-Far'ah, Archaeology Timeline (2003-) accessed 4 August 2004

 

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