'Ir David/Wadi Hilweh

settlement · 10000 BC – 2100 AD

The City of David is the name given in the 20th century to an archaeological site located in the Arab neighborhood of Wadi Hilweh, located south of the Temple Mount and the Ophel in East Jerusalem. The site contains pottery from as early as the Chalcolithic Age, and has been proposed as a possible original core of the city of Jerusalem. The Silwa necropolis, a burial site dated to the 9th-7th centuries BCE, is located within this area.

Coordinates

31.77270, 35.23560

Also known as

'Ir David, Ir David (he), Medina Dawud, Madina Dawud, Medina Dawood, Madina Dawood (arb), Wadī Ḥilweh, Wadi Hilweh, Wadi Hilwah (arb), עיר דוד (he), مدينة داود (arb), وادي حلوة (arb)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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