. Palestine and Syria : with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia : handbook for travellers . xv. 4). Hence, along a Roman road, we come in 35 min. to — Hesban (2950 ft.), the ancient Heshhon.^ which is mentioned in the Old Testa-ment (Numb. xxi. 25 et seq.) as the city of Sihon, King of the town was allotted to Reuben, and afterwards came again into thepossession of the Moabites (Jerem. xlviii. 45). In the time of theMaccabees, however, it had been recovered by the Jews. MADEBA. IS. Route. 151 The ruins lie on two hill,°, bounded on the W. by the Wddi Hesbdn andon t
. Palestine and Syria : with the chief routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia : handbook for travellers . xv. 4). Hence, along a Roman road, we come in 35 min. to — Hesban (2950 ft.), the ancient Heshhon.^ which is mentioned in the Old Testa-ment (Numb. xxi. 25 et seq.) as the city of Sihon, King of the town was allotted to Reuben, and afterwards came again into thepossession of the Moabites (Jerem. xlviii. 45). In the time of theMaccabees, however, it had been recovered by the Jews. MADEBA. IS. Route. 151 The ruins lie on two hill,°, bounded on the W. by the Wddi Hesbdn andon the E. by the Wddi Mdin. There are many cistern-openings among the middle of the N. hill are the remains of a tower and to the it are a large pool, hewn in the rock, and also a square enclosurebuilt of large blocks. The greater part of the ancient town was built onthe saddle between the two hills, where there is a large reservoir. Onthe hill are traces of a citadel, or possibly a temple, with shaftsof columns. — The ruins of MesMid (p. 149) lie about I2V2 M. to the EstaW Leipsic From Hesban we ride in I3/4 hr. direct to the S. to —M&deb£ (2540 ft. 5 accommodation at the house of the Greek priest;Turkish Post & Telegraph Office)^ which is the peat of a Mudir (p. Ivii). —Mddebd, Mddaba, or Medba was originally a town of the Moabites (Josh,xiii. 9). It was afterwards allotted to Reuben. According to the in-scription on the Moabite Stone (p. J53) the town belonged to Israel inthe reign of Omri. In the middle of the 9th cent. it again cameinto the possession of the Moabites, and at a later period it is called atown of the Nabatseans (Arabs). Hyrcanus captured the town. In theRomrn period it belonged to Arabia Petrsea. During the Christian periodit was the seat of a bishop. The ruins of Kadeba have been occupied since 1880 by about2000 Christians from El-Kerak. These are mt stly Greeks (with a churchand schools), but there are also abou
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