Talk:Turmus Ayya

Low priority?
I feel that it's very strange that this article was placed under 'low priority' in the Palestine WikiProject. Considering it's a fairly well-known town in the Palestinian Territories, I'd say it should be medium-high. -- Ynhockey (Talk) 19:19, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

66% of the total population are living elsewhere
I think I understand the point of the section, but it's not really correct to say it this way. You can say 'former residents', or ex-pats, but the word population refers only to current residents. I am also wondering where the number came from. --Shuki 23:09, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

sarcophagus
A decorated marble sarcophagus was found here and described in 1913 (Savignac 1913;  Decouvertes a Tourmous'aya. Revue Biblique 22: 106-111; and Michon  1913;  Sarcophage representant Bacchus et les Genies des saisons decouvert a Tourmous'aya. Revue Biblique 22: 111-118.) (I found the refs in Finkelstein) Searching for it brings me  this picture which shows that sarcophagus is now in the Rockefeller Museum. In fact, a picture of it was uploaded to the commons, with the mistaken text that it was from Tall al-Turmus. I`m removing it from that article, and placing it here. Cheers, Huldra (talk) 17:17, 29 June 2014 (UTC)