Tel Shiqmona
settlement · 18000 BC – 2000 AD
An ancient settlement located near the coast of the modern city of Haifa, Israel. Archaeological evidence indicates habitation there from the late Bronze Age through the late Byzantine period. Strabo describes the city as a ruin in his time.
- Coordinates
- 32.82464, 34.95547
- Also known as
- Caifas, Calamon, Kalamon (grc), Castra Samaritanorum (la), Cayphas, Caifas, Caiphas (ka), Haifa, Porphyreōn, Porphyreon (grc), Qasṭǝrȧ, Qastera, Ḫorbat Qastra (hbo), Salmonȧ, Salmona, Shiqmona, Shiqmonah, Shiqmōnā, Sycaminum (la), Sycaminum (la), Sykamina, Sykaminon (grc), Sykaminos (grc), Tall Abī Ḥawām, Tall Abi Hawam, Tell Abi Hawam, Tall Abi Hawwam, Tell Abi Hawwam (arb), Tall Abī Ḥuwām, Tall Abi Huwam, Tell Abi Huwam (arb), Tall Abū Hawwām, Tall Abū Ḥawwām, Tall Abū Ḥawām, Tell Abu Hawam, Tall Abu Hawam, Tall Abu Hawa, Tell Abu Hawa, Tell Abu Hawwam, Tall Abu Hawwam (ar), Tall Abū Ḥuwām, Tell Abu Huwam, Tall Abu Huwam (ar), Tall as Samak, Tall as-Samak, Tell es-Samak, Tell es-Semak, Tall al-Samak, Tell el-Samak, Tell el-Semak (arb), Tall as-Samakh, Tel Shikmona, Tel Shiqmonah, Tel Sikmona, Tel Šikmona, Tel'-Shikmona, Tell es Semak, Tẹl Šiqmonȧ, Tel Shiqmona, Tel Shikmona, Shikmonah (heb), Šiqma, Šiqmȧ, Shiqma (hbo), Ḥaifā 1, Haifa 1 (arb), Ḥaifā 2, Haifa 2 (arb), Ḥaifā 3, Haifa 3 (arb), Ḥaifā l-ʿAtīqa, Haifa l-'Atiqa, Haifa l-Atiqa, Haifa al-'Atiqa, Haifa al-Atiqa, Haifa al-'Atiqah, Haifa al-Atiqah, Haifa l-'Atiqah, Haifa l-Atiqah, Haifa el-'Atiqa, Haifa el-Atiqa, Haifa el-'Atiqah, Haifa el-Atiqah (arb)
- Dating
- attested
Sources
- Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
- iDAI.gazetteer (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut) · CC BYiDAI.gazetteer, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (CC BY)
- Wikidata · CC0 1.0Wikidata (CC0)
- GeoNames · CC BY 4.0© GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)