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Wadi Rum, Bathhouse, Statue of Venus Anadyomene

Location:

  • Jordan, Ramm
  • geo:29.57785,35.414577
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • -9~ / 40~

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Annotations

Nabataean temple of Venus Anadyomene (Allat). Goddess Allat was a principal deity of the Nabataean people associated with water supply. Temple is now assigned to the reign of the Nabataean King Aretas IV i.e. 9 BC - 40 AD.

See:

  1. Dennine Dudley And Barbara Reeves: The Wadi Ramm Recovery Project: Preliminary Report of the 1996 Season, MOUSEION : ECHOS DU MONDE CLASSIQUE Volume XLI - N.S. 16 - 1991, pp.  81-106)

Wadi Rum village, Nabataean temple


Relevant museums

Aqaba, Archaeological Museum

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

Archeologisch museum van Amman

Het oude archeologische museum van Jordanië.


Nearby

Wadi Rum (Aramava)

'Villa'/Thermae

Khazali Canyon in Wadi Rum, Petroglyphs (6 km)

Khaz'ali Canyon in Wadi Rum

Rekhemtein (18 km)

Tower / Square structure remains


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