city
Avdat (Oboda)
Avdat, Israel · Wider Abrahamic world
30.794, 34.774
Attested. The site is attested. The dating of the 'En Avdat inscription is disputed.
This photograph shows the modern city, or the Wikipedia lead subject, rather than the ancient site itself.
Avdat was a Nabataean caravan station in the Negev, named for the deified king Obodas, with later Byzantine churches and monastic remains. An Arabic-script inscription found here (the 'En Avdat inscription') is among the earliest Arabic texts, possibly 1st–2nd c. CE.
Source stance: neutral.
People and groups named here
- Obodas I
Sources
- Avdat (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0). Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Eboda (Pleiades place 687887)
Pleiades Gazetteer (CC BY 3.0). Accessed 2026-11-11.
Further reading
Councils here
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