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Surroundings:

Heshbon, North ChurchHeshbon, Byzantine swan, made of the shell of a Septaria PorcellanaHeshbon, Hellenistic bowlHeshbon, Hellenistic plateArjan, Statue man from Iron Age IIRuins of church at Tell HesbanHeshbon, North ChurchMount Nebo - inside the churchView from the Mount NeboByzantine church on the Mount NeboDirections fro the Mount NeboNewsByzantine church - Scale modelMore news about NeboMount Nebo, Capital from the Moses church Byzantine church - Scale modelDecoration of Byzantine church at NeboMount Nebo, Model of the Moses churchByzantine church on the Mount NeboFloor Mosaics - Nebo churchByzantine church and monastery on the Mount NeboMosaics - Byzantine churchByzantine church on the Mount NeboByzantine monastery on the Mount Nebo - remainsView from the Mount NeboMount Nebo - inside the churchView from the Mount NeboMount Nebo - inside the churchView from the Mount NeboMount Nebo, Mosaic from the Al-Mukhayyat monastery, jar with grapes

Location:

  • Jordan, Ḩisbān
  • geo:31.799828,35.80888
  • Location ± 25-100 m.

Period or year:

  • 4xx~ / unknown

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=57428

Annotations

See:

  1. www.madabaplains.org/hisban/restoration-interventions.htm
  2. Michele Piccirillo, The Mosaics of Jordan, in: Treasures from an Ancient Land: The Art of Jordan, ed. Piotr Bienkowski, Stroud, UK: Alan Sutton 1991
  3. http://holyjordan.org/node/44
  4. J. Bjørnar Storfjell, The Stratigraphy of Tell Hesban, Jordan in theByzantine Period, Andrews University Digital Commons @ Andrews University Dissertations Graduate Research1983

Relevant museums

Amman, Jordan Museum

The new historical museum of Jordan; substantial archaeological collection.

Archeologisch museum van Amman

Het oude archeologische museum van Jordanië.

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre


Nearby

Heshbon, North Church

Byzantine basilica.

Tell Hisban (Esbous) (Heshbon?)

Multiple period settlement

Tell Hesban

Tell Hisban/Heshbon. Hesban, Heshbon. Late Roman temple.


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