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🏛️ The Monastery 🏛️
🏛️ The Monastery 🏛️#staycation
Similar in design to the Treasury but bigger (50m wide and 45m high), it was built in the 3rd century BCE as a Nabataean tomb. It derives its name from the crosses carved on the inside walls, suggestive of its use as a church in Byzantine times. #artyinjordan🇯🇴
🏛️ #TheTreasury 🏛️
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is one of the most elaborate temples in Petra, a city of the Nabatean Kingdom inhabited by the Arabs in ancient times. #artyinjordan🇯🇴
The Roman Western Theatre of Umm Qais.
The Roman Western Theatre of Umm Qais #staycation is found on the western slope of the city's acropolis. Seated up to 3,000 people and was central to the artistic and cultural life of the ancient city, before being adapted and used for other purposes later. #artyinjordan🇯🇴
🏛️ The Ruins of Jerash 🏛️
🏛️ The Ruins of Jerash 🏛️#staycation
⚔️🪖 Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city. #artyinjordan🇯🇴
Umm Qais or Qays is a town in northern Jordan
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Umm Qais or Qays is a town in northern Jordan#staycation principally known for its proximity to the ruins of the ancient Gadara. It is the largest city in the Bani Kinanah Department and Irbid Governorate in the extreme northwest of the country, near Jordan's borders with Israel and Syria. #artyinjordan🇯🇴
Decumanus Maximus 🏛️
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Around the mid-1st century AD, a first section of the Decumanus Maximus was paved with basalt slabs. The rectangular slabs are laid at an angle in order to prevent the joints from being broadened by the wheels of carts. Only in front of iconic buildings do they lie parallel to the roadside for a short distance. The busy traffic left visible traces in the pavement (see photo above).
During the Severan period (193 - 235), the Decumanus Maximus was greatly enhanced and prolonged into the city areas which had continued growing westwards. Estrades with numerous statues of honour, colonnades and porticoes as well as other monuments of urban representation were built on both sides. It is assumed that the colonnaded street fulfilled the function of a linear forum for which in other cities extensive squares were usually laid out.
A pressure pipeline constructed of large basalt blocks runs about 1.5 m below the pavement. Smaller clay or lead pipe systems were only installed in Byzantine times under the sidewalk at the height of the row of shops or at the older arch monument. #artyinjordan🇯🇴
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🏛️ #RomanTheatre 🏛️
🏛️ #romantheatre 🏛️#staycation Amman's Roman Theatre is a 6,000-seat, 2nd-century Roman theatre. A famous landmark in the Jordanian capital, it dates back to the Roman period when the city was known as Philadelphia. #artyinjordan🇯🇴
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