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Tel Jafna, located northeast of the village of Sahwa al-Khidr in the governorate of As-Suwayda, is characterized by its magnificent views of the surrounding areas and its high altitude of more than 1600 meters, in addition to its archaeological features dating back to the oldest times.
Dr. Nashaat Kiwan, the head of the Department of Antiquities of Suwayda, pointed out that he is watching from the top of Jaffna hill north of Tel al-Qinah, west of Tel al-Qulayb and south to the east of Tel al-Louz, east of Tel Shuaf and other villages. The mountain and the back.
The hill is embraced at its western foot, as Kiwan explains to a Byzantine-era correspondent of SANA burials. The guard added residual pieces to large clay pieces.
At the top of the hill within a flat area, the remaining monuments and monuments, according to Kiwan, are indicative of houses that were perennially believed by the inscription in its western entrance that this site was the seat of a monastery during the Ghassanid period. The remains of stone buildings of buildings were severely collapsed due to natural and human factors. Two water wells were feeding the place with drinking water.
To the north-west of the hill, Kiwan points out that there are circular rock masses, trapped between what looks like a water tank, which is likely to have been used for watering livestock.
Tall Jafna recorded the archaeological blocks at the Department of Antiquities of the endosperm witnessed in accordance with the largest settlement Kewan during the Byzantine period, so inscribed inscription at the entrance and pottery fractions, as well as the existence of a stone fragment lintel with Greek inscription on the western part of it is believed to be the place of a monastery.
Faced with the lack of studies related to the hill Kiwan emphasizes the importance of conducting excavations by the missions to find out what the archaeological elements in it more, despite the difficulty of work at the site.
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