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Temple of Artemis, built 150 AD, Jerash, Jordan. The temple consists of 2 staircases with a terrace and open-air altar, and the temenos or sacred precinct, surrounded by Corinthian columns. Artemis was the patron goddess of Jerash and sacrifices were made to her here. The Greco-Roman town of Gerasa is thought to have been founded in 331 BC by Alexander the Great. It was conquered by Pompey in 63 BC and became a prosperous Roman town. Jerash was destroyed by an earthquake in 749 AD and its ruins were discovered in 1806 and the town excavated and reconstructed.
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AR9124272
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Public
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5616px × 3732px
Photo Credit
Manuel Cohen / Art Resource, NY
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2ND CENTURY AD
Antioch on the Golden River
ARABIA
Arch
Archaeology
archeology
Column
Corinthian
Decapolis League
Diana
Gerasa
Goddess
Graeco-Roman
GRECO-ROMAN
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
HELLENISTIC
History
Jerash
JORDAN
Jordanian
MIDDLE EAST
Middle Easterny
Reconstruction
religion
Roman
RUINS
sacred precinct
Sacrifice
SITE
Stone
temenos
Temple
TOURISM
Worship