Description
Sketch shows the terrain of part of Palestine looking from a high place over a wadi which curves across the picture at the right. Features, on the near and far sides of the wadi, are labelled - from left to right: numerous short trenches, funk hole, distance obscured dust, large dugout, 25o, dugout, For horses, gentle grassy slopes, road, rough gravel bed of wadi, trenches, road, stone bldg, trenches, well, road (behind hill), trenches, trenches and dugouts, road follows behind hill, road, trenches. There are compass directions indicated twice along the lower edge.
Image Licence
All Rights Reserved
Image Credit
Alexander Turnbull Library
Location
Eshkol National Park, Northern Negev, Israel
Country
Israel
Tags
Category
Landscapes & Seascapes
TWW Comment
Also known as Besor Brook, Besor Ravine, Brook Besor, Besor River, Nahal Ha-Besor, Wadi Besor, Wadi Ghazzeh, Wadi Shelaleh
see: https://www.bibleplaces.com/nahalbesor/
Shellal is located some 3 km northeast, and across the valley of Nahal Besor/Wadi Ghazzeh, from the more famous biblical archaeological site of Tell el-Farah (South). (Wikipedia).
see: https://www.kkl-jnf.org/tourism-and-recreation/forests-and-parks/nahal-besor-south.aspx
