Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Masada' has mentioned 'Fortress' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| This article is about the Judean fortress. | WIKI |
| Masada (Hebrew: xd7x9exd7xa6xd7x93xd7x94xe2x80x8e metsada, "fortress")[1] is an ancient fortification in the Southern District of Israel situated on top of an isolated rock plateau, akin to a mesa. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 Geography 2 History 2.1 Hasmonean fortress 2.2 Herodian palace-fortress 2.3 First Jewish-Roman War 2.4 Byzantine monastery of Marda 3 Archaeology 3.1 Chalcolithic period 3.2 Identification and initial digs 3.3 Yigael Yadin expedition 3.3.1 Epigraphic findings 3.3.2 Human remains 3.3.3 Roman-period palm seed 3.3.4 Byzantine monastery 3.4 Archaeology vs. Josephus 3.4.1 No Hasmonean buildings found 3.4.2 Inaccurate description 3.4.3 Historicity of mass suicide 4 Modern tourism 5 Phases and layout 5.1 Phase I: Western Palace etc. | WIKI |
| [7] As the plateau abruptly ends in cliffs steeply falling about 400xc2xa0m (1,300xc2xa0ft) to the east and about 90xc2xa0m (300xc2xa0ft) to the west, the natural approaches to the fortress are very difficult to navigate. | WIKI |
| The fortress contained storehouses, barracks, an armory, a palace, and cisterns that were refilled by rainwater. | WIKI |
| Hasmonean fortress | WIKI |
| According to Josephus, between 37 and 31 BCE, Herod the Great built a large fortress on the plateau as a refuge for himself in the event of a revolt, and erected there two palaces. | WIKI |
| The ramp was complete in the spring of 73, after probably two to three months of siege, allowing the Romans to finally breach the wall of the fortress with a battering ram on April 16. | WIKI |
| According to Josephus, when Roman troops entered the fortress, they discovered that its defenders had set all the buildings but the food storerooms ablaze and committed mass suicide or killed each other, 960 men, women, and children in total. | WIKI |
| [26] The Aramaic common noun marda, "fortress", corresponds in meaning to the Greek name of another desert monastery of the time, Kastellion, and is used to describe that site in the vita (biography) of St Sabbas, but it is only used as a proper name for the monastery at Masada, as can be seen from the vita of St Euthymius. | WIKI |
| One reads "ben Ya'ir" (xd7x91xd7x9fxd7x99xd7x90xd7x99xd7xa8xe2x80x8e) and could be short for Eleazar ben Ya'ir, the commander of the fortress. | WIKI |
| [50] In 2017, Jean Michel Jarre performed an electronic music concert near the fortress. | WIKI |
| Masada is a dramatically located site of great natural beauty overlooking the Dead Sea, a rugged natural fortress on which the Judaean king Herod the Great constructed a sumptuous palace complex in classical Roman style. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (vi): The tragic events during the last days of the Jewish refugees who occupied the fortress and palace of Masada make it a symbol both of Jewish cultural identity and, more universally, of the continuing human struggle between oppression and liberty. | UNESCO |
| The property encompasses the remains of the site on its natural fortress and the surrounding siegeworks. | UNESCO |