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ID: 4012542
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/4012542
Record Type:
administrative
eṣ-Ṣafi (deserted settlement)
Coordinates:
Lat: 30 59 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 30.9833
decimal degrees
Long: 035 27 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 35.4500
decimal degrees
Note:
A Biblical town; may now be submerged in S end of Dead Sea; Bible describes it as the only City of the Plain to escape destruction; site where Lot & daughters took refuge.
Names:
eṣ-Ṣafi
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Al-Safi
(
C
,
V
)
Safi, El
(
C
,
V
)
Zoar
(
H
,
V
)
Bela
(
H
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Al Urdun
(nation) (
P
)
............
Al Karak
(governorate) (
P
)
................
eṣ-Ṣafi
(deserted settlement) (
P
)
Place Types:
deserted settlement (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
H
)
inhabited place (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Al-Safi..........
[
BHA
]
.................
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Bela..........
[
VP
]
...........
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 1050
eṣ-Ṣafi..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Atlas of Mesopotamia (1990)
135
.................
Carta's Official Guide to Israel (1983)
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Hachette: Eastern Mediterranean (1967)
.................
Israel Exploration Journal
Sussmann, XXXIII/3-4, 231-234
Safi, El..........
[
BHA
]
.................
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Zoar..........
[
BHA
,
VP
]
...........
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 1050
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Atlas of Mesopotamia (1990)
135
..................
BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 1050
..................
Carta's Official Guide to Israel (1983)
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Hachette: Eastern Mediterranean (1967)
..................
Israel Exploration Journal
Sussmann, XXXIII/3-4, 231-234
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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