Deir Alla
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Deir Alla مدينة دير علا |
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Shrine of Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah in Deir Alla
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 Deir Alla
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| Coordinates: 32°11′20″N 35°36′11″E / 32.18889°N 35.60306°E | |||
| Country | Jordan | ||
| Province | Balqa Governorate | ||
| Municipality established | 1967 | ||
| Government | |||
| • Mayor | Khalifa Solomen Diyat | ||
| Elevation | −1,030 ft (-314 m) | ||
| Population (2004) | |||
| • City | 6,899 (2,004) | ||
| • Metro | 46,481 (2,004) | ||
| • Ref | 2,004 Census | ||
| Time zone | GMT (UTC+2) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | +3 (UTC) | ||
| Area code(s) | +(962)5 | ||
| Website | http://deirallacity.gov.jo/ | ||
Coordinates: 32°11′20″N 35°36′11″E / 32.18889°N 35.60306°E
Deir Alla (Arabic: دير علا) is the site of an ancient Near Eastern town in Balqa Governorate, Jordan, thought to be the biblical Pethor.
The town was a sanctuary and metal-working centre, ringed by smelting furnaces built against the exterior of the city walls, whose successive rebuildings, dated by ceramics from the Late Bronze Age, sixteenth century BCE, to the fifth century BCE, accumulated as a tell based on a low natural hill. The hopeful identification of the site as the Biblical Sukkot is not confirmed by any inscription at the site. However, in Jerusalem Talmud Zeraim Shevi'it 9:2, Sukkot is referred as Tar'ellah' hence maybe deformed later into Deir Alla.
Deir Alla was the first Bronze Age city excavated in Jordan. The initial expectations were of establishing a relative chronology of Palestine pottery in the transition between the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, established through meticulous stratigraphy. It was intended to span a gap between established chronologies at Jericho and Samaria.
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