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    The Silwan necropolis is the remains of a rock-cut cemetery assumed to have been used by the highest-ranking officials residing in Jerusalem. Its tombs...
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    Silwan or Siloam (Arabic: سلوان, romanized: Silwan; Greek: Σιλωάμ, romanized: Siloam; Hebrew: כְּפַר הַשִּׁילוֹחַ, romanized: Kfar ha-Shiloaḥ) is a predominantly...
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    that once covered its slopes. The southern part of the mount was the Silwan necropolis, attributed to the elite of the ancient Kingdom of Judah. The western...
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    Kingdom of Judah. These include the Silwan necropolis, Ketef Hinnom, the Garden Tomb, and St. Etienne. The Silwan necropolis, the most important cemetery of...
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    It is adjacent to the much older archaeological site known as the Silwan necropolis. In the 19th century, special significance was attached to Jewish...
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    Jerusalem's most important cemetery from the First Temple period, the Silwan necropolis, assumed to have been used by the highest-ranking officials residing...
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    Southern California. Silwan. Retrieved 2013-10-28. Ussishkin, David. "Silwan, Jerusalem: The Survey of the Iron Age Necropolis". Tel Aviv University...
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    by T.W. Ingersoll Image from 1745 Rock-cut tombs in ancient Israel Silwan necropolis Tourism in the State of Palestine Hachlili, Rachel. Jewish Funerary...
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    Ramban David's Tomb Jason's Tomb Herod Family Tomb Holy Sepulchre Silwan necropolis Tomb of Absalom Tomb of Benei Hezir Tomb of Simeon the Just Tombs...
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    complete survey of the Silwan necropolis rock-cut tombs of the Jerusalem First Temple period necropolis atop which the village of Silwan was built. Headed...
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    local Christians to be that of Mary's was isolated from the rest of the necropolis, by cutting the surrounding rock face away from it. An edicule was built...
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    Kinneret. p. 138. GGKEY:75S35PKF07B. Amos Kloner; Boaz Zissu (2007). The Necropolis of Jerusalem in the Second Temple period. Peeters. p. 207. ISBN 978-90-429-1792-7...
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    rock-cut tombs of the Israelite period, forming what is known as the Silwan necropolis and dating from the 9th to the 7th centuries BCE, are found outside...
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    Ramban David's Tomb Jason's Tomb Herod Family Tomb Holy Sepulchre Silwan necropolis Tomb of Absalom Tomb of Benei Hezir Tomb of Simeon the Just Tombs...
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    Ramban David's Tomb Jason's Tomb Herod Family Tomb Holy Sepulchre Silwan necropolis Tomb of Absalom Tomb of Benei Hezir Tomb of Simeon the Just Tombs...
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    Ramban David's Tomb Jason's Tomb Herod Family Tomb Holy Sepulchre Silwan necropolis Tomb of Absalom Tomb of Benei Hezir Tomb of Simeon the Just Tombs...
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    Valley of Jehoshaphat in northwest Jerusalem. They are part of a giant necropolis situated to the north and east of the Old City of Jerusalem and dating...
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  • Royal Steward inscription (category Silwan)
    as a "highly conjectural suggestion". Isaiah 22 Siloam inscription Silwan necropolis British Museum Collection Avigad 1953: "The inscription discussed...
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    on Mount Zion. In 1968–71, Barkay and David Ussishkin surveyed the Silwan necropolis from the time of the Judean Monarchy during the Iron Age, containing...
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    Ramban David's Tomb Jason's Tomb Herod Family Tomb Holy Sepulchre Silwan necropolis Tomb of Absalom Tomb of Benei Hezir Tomb of Simeon the Just Tombs...
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    Ramban David's Tomb Jason's Tomb Herod Family Tomb Holy Sepulchre Silwan necropolis Tomb of Absalom Tomb of Benei Hezir Tomb of Simeon the Just Tombs...
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    Ramban David's Tomb Jason's Tomb Herod Family Tomb Holy Sepulchre Silwan necropolis Tomb of Absalom Tomb of Benei Hezir Tomb of Simeon the Just Tombs...
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    251-255; 275. Chisholm 1911, pp. 498–499. The Necropolis from the Time of the Kingdom of Judah at Silwan, Jerusalem, David Ussishkin, The Biblical Archaeologist...
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    Ramban David's Tomb Jason's Tomb Herod Family Tomb Holy Sepulchre Silwan necropolis Tomb of Absalom Tomb of Benei Hezir Tomb of Simeon the Just Tombs...
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    Jews for many centuries. Other traditions hold that Ramban was buried in Silwan, in Hebron or in Acre. In 2000, the cave became a subject of controversy...
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    Ramban David's Tomb Jason's Tomb Herod Family Tomb Holy Sepulchre Silwan necropolis Tomb of Absalom Tomb of Benei Hezir Tomb of Simeon the Just Tombs...
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