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Petra: Great Temple and surroundings, satellite image
Petra: Satellite image of the Great Temple and surroundings (Google Images)
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 Great Temple, located near the center of the site, is a multi-period structure which began during the Nabataean period. Containing a theater as well as both Roman and Nabataean temple shrines, and adjoining a Roman and Byzantine bath (thermae), it has been excavated over the past two decades by Brown University. Coordinates of the Great Temple are N 30.328850, E 35.442772.
The Great Temple is flanked on the north by the Colonnaded Street, which extends from the Nymphaeum in the east to the triumphal arch in the west adjoining the Nabatean Temple, Qasr al Bint.
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