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Petra: Plan of Great Temple
Petra: Plan of Great Temple (after Agnew 2007)
Petra,
located in southwestern Jordan, became a major trading center of the
Nabataeans by the mid second century BC. At its height, between 100 BC
and 100 AD, the Nabataean Kingdom had expanded north to southern Syria,
west to the Sinai, and south to the Red Sea. In 106 AD the Roman Empire
incorporated the Nabataean Kingdom into Trajan's newly-created Province
of Arabia.
The site represents a unique complex of ancient temples and tombs carved into the sides of cliffs, dating from the Nabataean, Late Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods. On the lower, flatter areas between these ridges, are several extended structures including the Theater, Baths, a Byzantine Church, and the Great Temple, a multi-period structure revealed by ongoing excavations by Brown University. The plan of the Great Temple is shown here.
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