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Les environs:

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Localisation:

  • Jordanie, Jarash
  • geo:32.280579,35.891609
  • Précision exacte

Period or year:

  • 425~ / unknown

Classification:

  • Sanctuaire
  • Visible

Identificateurs:

  • vici:place=24688

Annotations

Il n'y a pas une annotation en français. Présenté est une annotation en Anglais.

The temple of Dionysius of the first century had probably been abandoned in the third century when thesite was used as a place foor smelting bronze. The remains of the templewere removed to the level of its podium shortly before construction on the new building of Cathedral began and its architectural elements, such as columns, was reused as material for the masonry of the church.

See:

  1. Iain Browning, Jerash and the Decapolis. 1982, pp. diff.
  2. J. W. Crowfoot, “The Buildings Round the Fountain Court,” in Gerasa: City of the Decapolis ,ed. Carl H. Kraeling, New Haven: American Schools of Oriental Research, 1938, pp. 201–214
  3. Jason Moralee, The Stones of St. Theodore: Disfiguring the Pagan Past in Christian Gerasa, Journal of Early Christian Studies vol. 14/2, 2006, pp. 183-215 - https://www.academia.edu/891767/The_Stones_of_St_Theodore_Disfiguring_the_Pagan_Past_in_Christian_Gerasa

The temple of Dionysius of the first century had probably been abandoned in the third century when thesite was used as a place foor smelting bronze. The remains of the templewere removed to the level of its podium shortly before construction on the new building of Cathedral began and its architectural elements, such as columns, was reused as material for the masonry of the church.

See:

  1. Iain Browning, Jerash and the Decapolis. 1982, pp. diff.
  2. J. W. Crowfoot, “The Buildings Round the Fountain Court,” in Gerasa: City of the Decapolis ,ed. Carl H. Kraeling, New Haven: American Schools of Oriental Research, 1938, pp. 201–214
  3. Jason Moralee, The Stones of St. Theodore: Disfiguring the Pagan Past in Christian Gerasa, Journal of Early Christian Studies vol. 14/2, 2006, pp. 183-215 - https://www.academia.edu/891767/The_Stones_of_St_Theodore_Disfiguring_the_Pagan_Past_in_Christian_Gerasa

Musées associés

Archeologisch museum van Amman

Het oude archeologische museum van Jordanië.

Amman, Jordan Museum

The new historical museum of Jordan; substantial archaeological collection.


À proximité

Nymphaeum, Gerasa

Nymphaeum, Gerasa

Gerasa (Jerash)

Modern reconstruction of the method of extraction and processing of stones used in the construction of the city of Jerash.

Gerasa (Jerash) - Church of Saint Theodore

The oldest church in the city. Later cathedra of Gerasa.