Dhiban

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Dhiban is an archaeological site and modern town in Jordan, historically significant as the ancient Moabite city of Dibon.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Dhiban canonical 3
Dhiban (Dibon) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf archaeological site ⓘ
town ⓘ
archaeologicalResearchFocus Moabite state formation ⓘ
urbanism in central Transjordan ⓘ
associatedWithPeople Moabites ⓘ
biblicalBook Book of Isaiah ⓘ
Book of Jeremiah ⓘ
Book of Numbers ⓘ
continuityOfOccupation from at least the Iron Age to the present ⓘ
country Jordan ⓘ
culturalHeritageStatus important archaeological heritage site in Jordan ⓘ
elevation approximately 700 meters above sea level ⓘ
excavatedBy American Center of Research ⓘ
Dhiban Excavation and Development Project ⓘ
governedBy Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan ⓘ
linked to: Jordan (country)
hasArchaeologicalFeature city walls ⓘ
domestic architecture ⓘ
fortifications ⓘ
tombs ⓘ
water systems ⓘ
hasArchaeologicalPeriod Byzantine period ⓘ
Early Islamic period ⓘ
Hellenistic period ⓘ
Iron Age ⓘ
Medieval period ⓘ
Moabite period ⓘ
Nabataean period ⓘ
linked to: Nabataean

Ottoman period ⓘ
Roman period ⓘ
hasNearbyFind Mesha Stele ⓘ
historicalName Dibon ⓘ
historicalRegion Moab ⓘ
identifiedAs ancient city of Dibon ⓘ
languageOfInscriptionNearby Moabite language ⓘ
locatedIn Madaba Governorate ⓘ
Transjordan ⓘ
central Jordan ⓘ
locatedNear Dead Sea ⓘ
Wadi al-Mujib ⓘ
mentionedIn Hebrew Bible ⓘ
linked to: Tanakh
modernFunction administrative center for surrounding rural area ⓘ
modernPopulation several thousand inhabitants ⓘ
nearbySite Karak ⓘ
Madaba ⓘ
primaryReligionModernTown Islam ⓘ
region Balqa Plateau ⓘ
timeZone UTC+2 ⓘ
timeZoneDST UTC+3 ⓘ
writingSystemAncient Northwest Semitic alphabet ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Madaba Governorate → hasTown → Dhiban ⓘ
Dhiban, Jordan → hasAncientName → Dhiban (Dibon) ⓘ
linked to: Dhiban