Editing Sela (Edom) (section)

==Archaeological site==
Sela in Edom is widely identified with the ruins of Sela, east of [[Tafilah|Tafileh]] (identified as biblical [[Tophel]]) and near [[Bozrah]], both Edomite cities in the mountains of Edom, in modern-day [[Jordan]].

As of 2012 Sela, or as-Sila‛ or es-Sela in Arabic, had not yet been excavated, but surveys of the plateau have produced surface finds from the [[Ancient Near East#Periodization|Early Bronze Age]] through to the [[Nabataean]] period, but mainly from the time of the Edomites of the Hebrew Bible: the early to mid-first millennium BCE.<ref name=Corbett/> This is the period when Sela was most extensively inhabited.<ref name=Corbett>{{cite web |first= Glenn J. |last= Corbett |title= The Edomite Stronghold of Sela: Is this where 10,000 Edomites were thrown to their deaths? |date= December 2012 |publisher= Biblical Archaeology Society |work= Bible History Daily |url= https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/biblical-archaeology-sites/the-edomite-stronghold-of-sela/ |access-date= }}</ref>

Archaeologists have found on a rock face at es-Sila' the so-called "[[Nabonidus]] Inscription", named after the last king of the [[Neo-Babylonian Empire]] (ruled c. 556–539 BCE).<ref name=RivaASOR>{{cite journal |last= Da Riva |first= Rocío |title= New Discoveries at Sela, the Mountain Stronghold of Edom |work= The Ancient Near East Today |publisher=[[American Society of Overseas Research]] (ASOR) |volume= VII |number= 3 |date= March 2019 |url= https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2019/03/New-Discoveries-at-Sela/ |access-date= 1 May 2021}}</ref><ref name=Riva>{{cite journal |last= Da Riva |first= Rocío |title= The Nabonidus Inscription in Sela (Jordan): Epigraphic Study and Historical Meaning |pages= 176–195 |journal= Zeitschrift für Assyriologie |publisher=[[De Gruyter]] |location= Berlin |volume= 110 |number= 2 |year= 2020 |doi= 10.1515/za-2020-0018 |url= https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/za-2020-0018/html |access-date= 1 May 2021}}</ref>