Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Masada' has mentioned 'Plateau' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| 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 |
| [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 top of the mesa-like plateau is flat and rhomboid-shaped, about 550xc2xa0m (1,800xc2xa0ft) by 270xc2xa0m (890xc2xa0ft). | WIKI |
| Herod built a 4xc2xa0m (13xc2xa0ft) high casemate wall around the plateau totalling 1,300xc2xa0m (4,300xc2xa0ft) in length, reinforced by many towers. | 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 |
| [14] The Roman legion surrounded Masada, built a circumvallation wall and then a siege ramp against the western face of the plateau. | WIKI |
| An almost inaccessible cave, dubbed Yoram Cave, located on the sheer southern cliff face 100 m below the plateau, has been found to contain numerous plant remains, of which 6,000-year-old barley seeds were in such good state of preservation that their genome could be sequenced. | WIKI |
| The remnants of a Byzantine church dating from the fifth and sixth centuries have been excavated on the plateau. | WIKI |