Engraving of Shechem or Sichem a Canaanite city mentioned in the Amarna letters, and the Bible as an Israelite city of the tribe of Manasseh and the first capital of the Kingdom of Israel. Traditionally associated with Nablus, it is now identified with the nearby site of Tell Balata in Balata al-Balad in the West Bank

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