Selaa

Selaa
سلع
Village
Selaa
Coordinates: 33°15′15″N 35°22′18″E / 33.25417°N 35.37167°E / 33.25417; 35.37167
Grid position 185/295 PAL
Country  Lebanon
Governorate South Governorate
District Tyre
Elevation 1,440 ft (440 m)
Time zone GMT +3

Selaa, Silảh, (Arabic: سلع‎‎) is a village in the Tyre District in Southern Lebanon.

Name

According to E. H. Palmer, Silảh comes from "the crevasse".[1]

History

In 1875, Victor Guérin found here 250 Metuali inhabitants.[2] He further noted: "Here I found an ancient press, the lid of a sarcophagus with acroteria, and a broken sarcophagus, at one of whose ends is a projection resembling an altar. Near it is a great grave with room for two bodies, with a partition wall left in the rock; and beside this an enormous detached block, hollowed out for two bodies, and resting on a surface purposely planed.'[3] Close to Silah, Guérin also found the ruins of a small village, completely destroyed, known as Kh. Fenian.[4]

In 1881, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as: "a village, built of stone and of good materials, containing about 200 [..] Metawileh, on hill, with figs, olives, and arable land. Water from cisterns and a spring near."[5] They further noted that it had a perennial spring, built up with masonry,[6] and that it was "an ancient site; there is a terraced hill; there are six sarcophagi and two olive-presses near the village."[4]

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 33
  2. ↑ Guérin, 1880, p. 263
  3. ↑ Guérin, 1880, p. 263; as translated in Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 139
  4. 1 2 Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 139
  5. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 94
  6. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1881, SWP I, p. 105

Bibliography

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