Horvat Ma'on
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Ruin | |
&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Old_Maon.jpg) Horvat Ma'on near Hebron | |
&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Israel_outline_south_wb.png)  Horvat Ma'on Location of Horvat Ma'on | |
| Coordinates: 31°24′34″N 35°08′02″E / 31.40944°N 35.13389°E | |
| Grid position | 162/090 PAL |
| Region | West Bank |
| District | Judea and Samaria Area |
| Government | |
| • Council | Har Hevron (Mount Hebron) Regional Council |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (IST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (IDT) |
Horvat Maon/Horvat Ma'on,[1][2] Arabic: Khirbet Ma'in[3][4] or Tell Máîn (SWP map No. 25), is an archaeological site in the Hebron Hills, West Bank, rising 863 metres (2,831 ft) above sea level, where the remains of the ancient town of Ma'on (Hebrew: מעון) have been excavated. The town, now a ruin, is mentioned in the Book of Joshua (Joshua 15:55) and the Books of Samuel (1 Samuel 25:2). It still had a Jewish population during the Roman and Byzantine periods, and a synagogue was discovered there. The site was ultimately abandoned around the time of the Muslim conquest.[5]
The site is located about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) southeast of Yatta. Immediately to the north lies the modern small village of Ma'in.
- ^ Amit, David (1998). "Architectural Plans of Synagogues in the Southern Judean Hills and the 'Halakah'". In Dan Urman; Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher (eds.). Ancient Synagogues: Historical Analysis and Archaeological Discovery. Studia Post Biblica (47)/Themes in Biblical Narrative (47). BRILL. p. 130. ISBN 9004112545. Retrieved 8 February 2024.130]
- ^ Vlada Nikolsky (07/07/2010). "Horbat Ma‘on: Final Report". In HA-ESI Volume 122 (2010). Accessed 8 Feb 2024.
- ^ Tsafrir, Y.; Leah Di Segni; Judith Green (1994). (TIR): Tabula Imperii Romani. Iudaea, Palestina: Eretz Israel in the Hellenistic , Roman and Byzantine Periods; Maps and Gazetteer. Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. p. 178. ISBN 965-208-107-8.
- ^ Aharoni, Y. (1979). The Land of the Bible: A Historical Geography (2 ed.). Philadelphia: Westminster Press. p. 439. ISBN 0664242669. OCLC 6250553. (original Hebrew edition: 'Land of Israel in Biblical Times - Historical Geography', Bialik Institute, Jerusalem (1962))
- ^ Ehrlich, Michael (2022-05-31), "Judea and Jerusalem", The Islamization of the Holy Land, 634–1800, ARC Humanities Press, pp. 117–118, doi:10.1515/9781802700312-007, ISBN 978-1-80270-031-2, retrieved 2024-09-19