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Surroundings:

Al Qatrana

Location:

  • Jordan, Al Qaţrānah
  • geo:31.242649,36.041409
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Class:

  • Castle
  • invisible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=44036

Annotations

Qatrana was Roman frontier fort is completly damaged. Its spolia were used by Arabs to built their fortifications and eventually looted.

See:

  1. Ignacio Arce, Late Antique and Umayyad Quarries from the Near. East. A model of optimization of resources, in: Arqueología de la construcción IV: Las canteras en el mundo antiguo: sistemas de explotación y procesos productivos: Actas del congreso de Padova, 22-24 de noviembre de 2012. Mérida: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Instituto de Arqueología de Mérida. (Anejos de Archivo Español de Arqueología; LXIX), pp. 409-410

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Al Qatrana

Al Qatrana

Qatrana, Quarry

Qatrana, Quarry of Roman period.

Qasr AL Muqahar (10 km)

Roman Fort


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