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Triple-arch Gate at Dan
Triple-arch Gate at Dan by Walter
The Triple-arch Gate at Dan are the archaeological remains of a Canaanite gate on Tel Dan in the far north of Israel on the border with Syria. The gate consists of three mudbrick arches constructed in the second millennium BCE as a defence for the Canaanite town of Laish. The Tel Dan Reserve is also the site of the source pools of the Dan, the largest of the three headstreams of the Jordan.
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- Full Name
- Triple-arch Gate at Dan & Sources of the Jordan (ID: 1469)
- Country
- Israel
- Status
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On tentative list 2000
Site history
History of Triple-arch Gate at Dan
- 2010: Postponed
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- 2009: Not approved
- Requests the World Heritage Centre to facilitate the provision of the information which would enable the formal inscription of the property by the Committee at its 34th session.
- 2008: Referred
- To present further information and legal and technical data
- 2006: Requested by State Party to not be examined
- Withdrawn at request of Israel
- 2000: Added to Tentative List
- Added to tentative list
- Criteria
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- UNESCO
- whc.unesco.org
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When planning our tour through Israel I decided early on to make the journey up to the far north to see the Triple Arch Gate of Dan. This, both for the “completeness” of seeing the country from the Biblical “Dan to Beersheba” and also to try to discover more about this T List site which remains mysteriously in limbo having been recommended by ICOMOS but not accepted by the WHC because of the lack of some documentation whose nature has never been officially clarified in WHC minutes!!
Before I continue with what we saw and discovered it might be worth quoting the Decisions of the last 3 WHC which discussed the site -
In 2008
“2. Recognizes that the nomination entitled “Triple Arch Gate at Dan”, brings to the
attention of the Committee one of the elements of a technological innovation that has
Outstanding Universal Value on the basis of criterion (ii);
3. Refers the nomination entitled “Triple Arch Gate at Dan”, back to the State Party to
present further information and legal and technical data to enable its formal inscription
by the Committee at its 33rd session in 2009.”
In 2009
“2. Takes note that the World Heritage Centre received the information presented
by the State Party concerning legal and technical data according to Decision 32
COM 8B.34;
3. Requests the World Heritage Centre to facilitate the provision of the information
which would enable …
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