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Safi, Tell es- (Israel)

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Geographic headingSafi, Tell es- (Israel)
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Geographic subdivision usageIsrael--Safi, Tell es-
Variant(s)Safi Site (Israel)
Tall aṣ-Ṣāfī (Israel)
Tel Tzafit (Israel)
Tell es-Safi Site (Israel)
Tzafit, Tel (Israel)
Zafit Site (Israel)
See alsoIsrael--Antiquities
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Found inWork cat.: Tell es-Safi/Gath I: the 1996-2005 seasons, 2012.
Wikipedia, 6 June 2012: under Tell es-Safi (Tell es-Safi; Arabic: تل الصافي‎, Tall aṣ-Ṣāfī, "the white hill"; Hebrew: תל צפית‎, Tel Tzafit; Tell es-Safi was a Palestinian village, located on the southern banks of Wadi 'Ajjur, 35 kilometers northwest of Hebron that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war; today it is part of the modern-day state of Israel and serves as an archaeological site)
The Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project website, 6 June 2012: Home page (Tell es-Safi, identified as Canaanite and Philistine Gath, is one of the largest pre-classical sites in the Levant, settled continuously from late Prehistoric through Modern times)
LC database, 26 June 2018 LCCN 2012415735 (Zafit Site (Israel))