Historical place profile
Sobata
Sobata or Shivta is an ancient city in the Negev Desert located some 43 km southwest of Beersheba. The site was enrolled as a UNESCO World Heritage site, together with Haluza, Mamshit, and Avdat, in June 2005.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:688030
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:688030
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 30.881170, 34.630721
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Sobata or Shivta is an ancient city in the Negev Desert located some 43 km southwest of Beersheba. The site was enrolled as a UNESCO World Heritage site, together with Haluza, Mamshit, and Avdat, in June 2005.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 70 F4 Sobata
Source and reuse
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Research path
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