parco nazionale di Herodion
Sign in to saveThe Herodeion (), in Latin: Herodium, in Modern Herodion, known in Arabic as Jabal al-Fureidis () is a fortified desert palace built by Herod the Great, king of Judaea, in the first century BCE. The complex stands atop a hill in the Judaean Desert, approximately south of Jerusalem and southeast of Bethlehem, between Beit Ta'mir, Za'atara to the east and Jannatah, Tekoa and Nokdim to the west. The site is located at an elevation of 758 meters (2,487 ft) above sea level.
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Herodium
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- Herodeion, Herodion
- Ancient site.image
- Herodium from above 2.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- Aerial view of the acropolis of Herodium
- Ancient site.location
- West Bank, Palestine
- Ancient site.region
- Bethlehem Governorate
- Ancient site.type
- Fortification
- Ancient site.builder
- Herod the Great
- Ancient site.built
- 22–15 BCE
- Ancient site.abandoned
- 71 CE and 134/5 CE
- Ancient site.epochs
- Second Temple period, Roman period
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- Virgilio Canio Corbo, Stanislao Loffreda, Ehud Netzer, Roi Porat
- Ancient site.management
- Israel Nature and Parks Authority
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- national park
- Country
- West Bank
- Located in
- Bethlehem
- Elevation
- 758
- Image
- Herodium from above 2.jpg
- Height
- 758
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- Commons category
- Herodium
- inception
- 0015-00-00
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
- different from
- Herodion of Patras
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Article · Italiano
Herodion o Herodium (ebraico: הרודיון; arabo: هيروديون) è una collina a forma di tronco di cono, che si eleva sulla piana circostante per circa 60 metri, raggiungendo i 758 m s.l.m., sulla cui sommità Erode il Grande fece costruire un palazzo-fortezza tra il 23 e il 15 a.C. Si trova in Cisgiordania, 12 km a sud di Gerusalemme. La combinazione di palazzo e fortezza fu una caratteristica comune a diverse costruzioni erodiane, come Masada. Nel maggio 2007 archeologi israeliani vi hanno rinvenuto una tomba, forse dello stesso re.
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