Deir Asfin

Deir ʿAsfīn (Arabic: دير عسفين, "Convent of Deviation")^[1] was a former monastery in Ottoman Palestine located just north of Tira in present-day Israel. It appeared on Sheet XI of the 19th-century Survey of Western Palestine^[1] and its peak formed the highest point of the Falik Hills in the maritime plains south of Mount Carmel, with an elevation of 92 meters (302 ft) above sea level.^[2] It has also been identified as the location of the Theraspis (Greek: Θερασπις) that appears on the Madaba Map of 6th-century Byzantine Palestine.^[3]

• Casanowicz, I.W. (1915), "A Colored Drawing of the Medeba Map of Palestine in the United States National Museum" (PDF), Proceedings of the US National Museum, vol. 49, no. 2111, Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 359–376.
• Palmer, E.H. (1881), Arabic and English Name Lists, The Survey of Western Palestine, London: Palestine Exploration Fund.
• Saunders, Trelawney (1881), An Introduction to the Survey of Western Palestine: Its Waterways, Plains, & Highlands (PDF), London: Palestine Exploration Fund.

32°15′15″N 34°56′50″E / 32.25417°N 34.94722°E / 32.25417; 34.94722

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