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Tell Balata ((アラビア語:تل بلاطة)) is the site of the remains of an ancient Canaanite/Israelite〔(Excavations done at former Israelite capital Shechem )〕 city located in the Palestinian West Bank. The built-up area of Balata, a Palestinian village and suburb of Nablus, covers about one-third of the tell, and overlooks a vast plain to the east.〔Pfeiffer, 1966, p. 518.〕 The Palestinian village of Salim (biblical Salem) is located to the east.〔Kalai, 2000, p. 114.〕 The site is listed by UNESCO as part of the Inventory of Cultural and Natural Heritage Sites of Potential Outstanding Universal Value in the Palestinian Territories.〔 Experts estimate that the towers and buildings at the site date back 5,000 years to the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages.〔 ==Modern name== Tell is the Hebrew and Arabic word for an archaeological mound.〔''Archaeology of Palestine'', Art of Excavating a Palestinian Mound, William Foxwell Albright, 1960, p. 16〕 ''Balata'' is the name of the ancient Arab village located on the tell, and of the adjacent Palestinian refugee camp of Balata established in 1950.〔 The name was preserved by local residents and used to refer both to the village and the hill (and later on, the refugee camp).〔 One theory holds that ''balata'' is a derivation of the Aramaic word ''Balut'', meaning ''acorn''; another theory holds that it is a derivation of the Byzantine-Roman era, from the Greek word ''platanos'', meaning ''terebinth'', a type of tree that grew around the spring of Balata.〔Crown et al., 1993, p. 39.〕〔Mazar and Ahituv, 1992, p. 53.〕 The local Samaritan community traditionally called the site 'The Holy Oak' or 'The Tree of Grace'.〔Cunningham Geike, ''The Holy Land and the Bible: a book of Scripture illustrations gathered in Palestine'', Cassell, London 1887 p.211.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tell Balata」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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