Sheet XI of the Survey of Western Palestine, showing Deir ʿAsfīn in the lower left

Deir ʿAsfīn (Arabic: دير عسفين, "Convent of Deviation")[1] was a former monastery in Ottoman Palestine located just north of Tira in present-day Israel. It appeared on Sheet XI of the 19th-century Survey of Western Palestine[1] and its peak formed the highest point of the Falik Hills in the maritime plains south of Mount Carmel, with an elevation of 92 meters (302 ft) above sea level.[2] It has also been identified as the location of the Theraspis (Greek: Θερασπις) that appears on the Madaba Map of 6th-century Byzantine Palestine.[3]

References

Citations

  1. 1 2 Palmer (1881), p. 181
  2. ↑ Saunders (1881), p. 133.
  3. ↑ Casanowicz (1915), p. 368.

Bibliography

  • Casanowicz, I.W. (1915), "A Colored Drawing of the Medeba Map of Palestine in the United States National Museum" (PDF), Proceedings of the US National Museum, Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, vol. 49, no. 2111, pp. 359–376.
  • Palmer, E.H. (1881), Arabic and English Name Lists, The Survey of Western Palestine, London: Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • Saunders, Trelawney (1881), An Introduction to the Survey of Western Palestine: Its Waterways, Plains, & Highlands (PDF), London: Palestine Exploration Fund.

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