Ketef Hinnom
Ketef Hinnom is an archaeological site discovered in the 1970s southwest of the Old City of Jerusalem. Archaeological excavations held at the site uncovered a series of Iron Age period Judahite burial chambers, dating to the 7th and 6th centuries BCE.
- Archaeological site
- …lies at an elevation of around 670 metres (2,190 feet)
- Description: archaeological site southwest of the Old City of Jerusalem
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Ketef Hinnom
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Latitude
31.76886° or 31° 46′ 8″ north
Longitude
35.22537° or 35° 13′ 31″ east
Open location code
8G3QQ69G+G4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic = archaeological_site
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Russian—“Ketef Hinnom” goes by many names.
لفافتا كتف هنوم الفضيتانArabic
Ketef HinnomDanish
Ketef HinnomDutch
כתף הינוםHebrew
Ketef HinnomIndonesian
케테프 힌놈Korean
Ketef HinnomPolish
Ketef HinnomRomanian
Катеф ХиномRussian
Кетеф ХинномRussian
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