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Baths

Location:

  • Jordan, Humeima
  • geo:29.952892,35.348148
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • 110~ / 4xx

Class:

  • Castle
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=34845

Annotations

In 106 AD the Nabatean Kingdom became the Roman Province of Arabia and shortly after that Trajan’s military engineers constructed a large fort on the north of the town. Legio III Cyrenaica.

See:

  1. http://web.uvic.ca/~jpoleson/Humayma/TMP3ob4o70iur.htm
  2. https://www.acorjordan.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/ACOR%20Newsletter%20Vol.%2027.1.pdf
  3. John P Oleson, Khairieh Amr, Rebecca M Foote, M Barbara Reeves, and Robert Schick, Preliminary Report of the al-Humayma Excavation Project, 1995, 1996, 1998, Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 43 1999, pp. 411- 450 - http://www.academia.edu/34203738

Relevant museums

Aqaba, Archaeological Museum

Collection of Roman finds from Aqaba itself and a Roman fort at Hawara


Nearby

Water Pool

Water Pool

Roman period houses

Roman period houses


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