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Petra: Qasr el Bint Faroun, Temple of Dushara
Petra: Qasr el Bint Faroun (Roberts 1839-49/Wellcome Collection)
Petra is located in southwestern Jordan. 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.
This
image by David Roberts, painted in 1839 and printed as a lithograph in
1849, shows the Qasr el Bint Far'oun ("Palace of the
Pharoah's Daughter"), an early 1st century AD Nabataean temple of the
god Dushara. It is located on the western end of the colonnaded street,
next to the Triumphal Arch. In this image, it is the small reddish
structure at right center with cliffs behind it.
The David Roberts prints of Petra are held at the Wellcome Collection in London.
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