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Surroundings:

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Location:

  • Jordan, Al Burbayţah
  • geo:30.968679,35.706528
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -2xx / 3xx

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=34912

Annotations

Khirbet et-Tannur placed ca 70 kilometers north of Petra was Nabatean  hilltop open-air sanctuary. Originally it was a simple altar on the top of hill. Located on the caravan road from Petra it developed into a complex aroud the altar by adding a temple, colonnades, and additional. Sanctuary existed from the IIIrd century BC till fourth century AD.

See:

  1. http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/khirbet-et-tannur-nabataean-temple-project.html
  2. http://www.ocla.ox.ac.uk/pdf/khirbet_tannur.pdf
  3. http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=27212
  4. Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century : Catalogue of the Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 19, 1977, Through February 12, 1978, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979, pp. 181-182
  5. Peter Alpass, The Religious Life of Nabataea, Brill 2013, pp.202ff

Relevant museums

Amman, Jordan Museum

The new historical museum of Jordan; substantial archaeological collection.

Archeologisch museum van Amman

Het oude archeologische museum van Jordanië.


Nearby

Dhat Ras, Jordan (6 km)

Nabataean sanctuary

Khirbet ad-Dharih (6 km)

Nabatean sanctuary

Khirbet ad-Dharih, Olive Press (6 km)

Khirbet ad-Dharih, Olive Press


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