{"id":2746,"date":"2024-03-19T09:57:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T06:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jm-qr-objects.jo\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2024-03-19T12:21:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T09:21:41","slug":"adh-dharih-temple-facade-eclectic-design-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jm-qr-objects.jo\/?p=2746&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Adh-Dharih Temple Fa\u00e7ade: Eclectic Design 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2746\" class=\"elementor elementor-2746\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1445773e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no\" data-id=\"1445773e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7b1def99\" data-id=\"7b1def99\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-af40ada elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"af40ada\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-large\"><h2 style=\"font-style: normal\">Adh-Dharih Temple Fa\u00e7ade: Eclectic Design<\/h2><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6f4c4dd2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"6f4c4dd2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2746-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/jm-qr-objects.jo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ADH-DARIH-TEMPLE.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/jm-qr-objects.jo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ADH-DARIH-TEMPLE.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/jm-qr-objects.jo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ADH-DARIH-TEMPLE.mp3\">https:\/\/jm-qr-objects.jo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ADH-DARIH-TEMPLE.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-41900fdc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"41900fdc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">Khirbat adh-Dharih was established as a Nabataean village on a mountain slope overlooking Wadi al-La`ban, a tributary of Wadi al-Hasa in southern Jordan.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">\u201cAn outstanding temple with elaborately carved fa\u00e7ade, that stood up to 15m high, was built in the village around AD 100.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">The temple fa\u00e7ade was designed according to classical fashion. It contained major constitutional elements of classical architectural order, but its decoration was not classical at all. Excavators found the temple in ruined heaps, but fortunately, they could recover hundreds of fallen stone blocks that enabled them to reconstruct major parts of the temple.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">The architrave of the temple fa\u00e7ade stood around 10m above ground. It was decorated with carved vines and animals, and had Medusa heads at the corners. The frieze above had figures of the Zodiac alternating with winged Victories, who crowned these figures. The discovered zodiac figures are, from left to right, Taurus, Gemini (figured as Dioscuri), Cancer, Libra and a fragment of a cuirassed Sagittarius; the others are very damaged or missing.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">At the top, the triangular pediment had sea centaurs (Tritons) with long twisted tails, crowned by flying Victories and fishes at the ends. Standing eagles guarded the central figures, which were certainly the most important for the temple. Only fragments remain to indicate what these were: a section of the head of a bearded deity (possibly Hadad\/ Dushara) and fine cornucopiae that suggest a female deity, possibly Atargatis\/ al-\u2018Uzza. These two were the main deities at the nearby Nabataean temple of Khirbat at-Tannur.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">These discoveries in 1998 to 2001 generated discussions among scholars: is the zodiac depicted here a sign of an astral Nabataean cult, or does it represent the local adoption of the zodiacal calendar that was known in several contemporary cultures?<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">Site: Khirbat adh-Dharih, near al Tafila.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">Period: Around 100 AD.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6c20d523 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6c20d523\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Pictures Of Pieces<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4a728605 elementor-arrows-position-inside elementor-pagination-position-outside elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-carousel\" data-id=\"4a728605\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;pause_on_interaction&quot;:&quot;no&quot;,&quot;navigation&quot;:&quot;both&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;autoplay_speed&quot;:5000,&quot;infinite&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;speed&quot;:500}\" data-widget_type=\"image-carousel.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-carousel-wrapper swiper\" role=\"region\" aria-roledescription=\"carousel\" aria-label=\"Image Carousel\" dir=\"ltr\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-carousel swiper-wrapper\" aria-live=\"off\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"1 of 1\"><a data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-slideshow=\"4a728605\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"object (15)\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6MTgwOCwidXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6XC9cL2ptLXFyLW9iamVjdHMuam9cL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjRcLzAxXC9vYmplY3QtMTUtc2NhbGVkLmpwZyIsInNsaWRlc2hvdyI6IjRhNzI4NjA1In0%3D\" href=\"https:\/\/jm-qr-objects.jo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/object-15-scaled.jpg\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/jm-qr-objects.jo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/object-15-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"object (15)\" \/><\/figure><\/a><\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adh-Dharih Temple Fa\u00e7ade: Eclectic Design Khirbat adh-Dharih was established as a Nabataean village on a mountain slope overlooking Wadi al-La`ban, a tributary of Wadi al-Hasa in southern Jordan. \u201cAn outstanding temple with elaborately carved fa\u00e7ade, that stood up to 15m high, was built in the village around AD 100.\u201d The temple fa\u00e7ade was designed according to classical fashion. It contained major constitutional elements of classical architectural order, but its decoration was not classical at all. Excavators found the temple in ruined heaps, but fortunately, they could recover hundreds of fallen stone blocks that enabled them to reconstruct major parts of the temple. The architrave of the temple fa\u00e7ade stood around 10m above ground. It was decorated with carved vines and animals, and had Medusa heads at the corners. The frieze above had figures of the Zodiac alternating with winged Victories, who crowned these figures. The discovered zodiac figures are, from left to right, Taurus, Gemini (figured as Dioscuri), Cancer, Libra and a fragment of a cuirassed Sagittarius; the others are very damaged or missing. At the top, the triangular pediment had sea centaurs (Tritons) with long twisted tails, crowned by flying Victories and fishes at the ends. Standing eagles guarded the central figures, which were certainly the most important for the temple. Only fragments remain to indicate what these were: a section of the head of a bearded deity (possibly Hadad\/ Dushara) and fine cornucopiae that suggest a female deity, possibly Atargatis\/ al-\u2018Uzza. These two were the main deities at the nearby Nabataean temple of Khirbat at-Tannur. These discoveries in 1998 to 2001 generated discussions among scholars: is the zodiac depicted here a sign of an astral Nabataean cult, or does it represent the local adoption of the zodiacal calendar that was known in several contemporary cultures? Site: Khirbat adh-Dharih, near al Tafila. Period: Around 100 AD. 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