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Jerash: Colonnade along Cardo Maximus
Jerash: view of colonnade along Cardo Maximus (photo: Bell Archive A-450)
Jerash was a major Hellenistic and Roman site in northern Jordan, with western part of the ancient town now preserved as an archaeological monument.
The town plan of Jerash dates from the early Roman era, with a 12-meter-wide cardo maximus or principal north-south street bisecting two decumani or east west streets each 8-9 meters wide. The cardo maximus with its Ionic colonnade extended more than 800 meters north-south between the North and South Gate. It ran parallel to the Chrysorhoas River, crossed by three bridges. Beneath it was an underground sewage system.
This photo of the colonnade along the Cardo Maximus was taken by Gertrude Bell in 1900, before the site was excavated and partly restored in the 1920s and 30s. The photo is in the Bell Archive at Newcastle University.
[source: Aubin, Melissa M. in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (1997), vol.3, pp. 215-219].
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