Jerash: Ancient Hellenistic, Byzantine, Roman and Muslim ruin city (Part – 2)

By Asad Russel – 

After Part – 1
At the Jerash what to see:
The spacious Oval Plaza overlooks the Temple of Zeus, 90x80 meters which measures. By the Ionic columns of the 1st century by a colonnade surrounded, in the middle it had two altars in the 7th century AD with a fountain that were replaced. The Festival flame of Jerash to carry were erected recently a central column.

In the Temple of Zeus of 162 AD to the sacred precinct or the temenos leads up a staircase from the Oval Plaza. To the temple itself led another staircase, by the Corinthian columns which are 15 meters high that was surrounded.

There is the Cardo Maximus from the Oval Plaza stretching north, in the Jerash the main Roman road. With the original stones of it still it is paved and of chariot wheels bears the ruts. Around 170 AD of the street of a remodeling as part, with a Corinthian colonnade which is more decorative were replaced the original Ionic columns. With a side walk which is broad and shops was lined the Cardo and of the street the full length ran a sewage system of underground, of the street on the sides through holes was channeled the rainwater into which.

There is the onsite Archaeological Museum on the right from the Oval Plaza not far, at the site found of artifacts a fascinating collection which houses, which includes the glass, jewelry, coins and theater tickets of pottery even.

To the marketplace or Macellum at the entrance becomes taller of the Cardo the colonnade, on the left a structure of ruined. Dated to 211 AD with a head of the lion there is a fountain here. There is an Umayyad Mosque which is discovered recently after the marketplace down the Cardo the next structure, were still are underway the excavations.

There is the South Tetrapylon after the mosque shortly with the South Decumanus of the Cardo the intersection that marks, running from east to west a smaller street. Remain today the intersection marking of the four columns the lower parts only.

On the Cardo continuing north, the Roman Temple of Dionysus of the 2nd century there is the richly carved gate on the left the next building, in the 4th century as a Byzantine church which was rebuilt. The Cathedral dubbed it has been, but the bishop’s church this was for that there is no evidence. There is a Shrine of the Virgin Mary against the east wall of the stairs at the top, to St. Mary and the archangels Gabriel and Michael with an inscription which is printed.

The large Church of St. Theodore is located just behind the Cathedral, in 496 AD which was built. In the center with a fountain a small paved plaza there is in between the two churches, of the site on the far west behind the St. Theodore around a shared atrium are grouped together of three Byzantine churches the ruins. The Church of St. Cosmos and St. Damian is the northernmost, to the twin brother doctors dedicated in the 4th century who were martyred as well a fine church they have in Rome.

You can also explore here the splendid floor mosaics, the church of St. John the Baptist, the church of St. George, the nymphaeum, the Temple of Artemis, the Propylaeum Church, small theater or the Odeon, the Church of the Bishop Isaiah and the North Tetrapylon.    

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