Hammon

Hammon was a boundary point of Asher's tribal inheritance on the northern coastal frontier between Tyre and Sidon, named in Joshua 19:28: "And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon." A separate Hammon appears in 1 Chronicles 6:76 as a Levitical city of Naphtali. The Asher Hammon is identified with the modern village of Umm el-Awamid south of Tyre, where Phoenician inscriptions and a substantial Iron Age tell preserve the ancient site's long history as a coastal frontier town.