Selaa

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

Selaa

سلع
Village
Selaa
Coordinates: 33°15′15″N 35°22′18″E
Grid position185/295 PAL
Country Lebanon
GovernorateSouth Governorate
DistrictTyre
Elevation
1,440 ft (440 m)
Time zoneGMT +3

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 PEF'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. 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
  • Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 1. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • Guérin, V. (1880). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 3: Galilee, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
  • Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
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