Jerash.12 – Two Theaters & Two Streets
This is the South Theater, and I’m looking north so you can make out the Artemis temple & other parts of the city I’ve shown before. Jerash in its heyday was important enough to have two theaters – just below you see a photo taken over the North Theater towards the northernmost gate. I didn’t walk up to the north gate – turned around and walked back past all that I’ve shown you already. Like this post, that was a farewell walk past the temple to Artemis, past the second street – called the South Decumanus – which I’m also showing you below, and thus to this theater still-working theater: there are outdoor concerts both here and at the Forum, as you might have guessed from modern chairs and stages in a few photos. A sign in one of the photos below reminded me that Jordan is celebrating 100 years since the current boundaries were drawn by a young Winston Churchill in the post-WWI dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. What better place to ponder the rise and fall of human empires than a place like this, eh?
..and with a last walk through the Hippodrome to soak up the atmosphere, we’ll bid farewell to Jerash. Hope you’re enjoyed this armchair introductory tour.
Thank you for the tour and the explanation of events etc. Beautiful pictures and a lot of history 🙏!
Sounds like a bit of the weather here in Norcal. However all relative, as I am heading out for 🎾at 8:30am, and asking myself why, as it will be a balmy 52degrees🤷♀️.
Hang in there and this too shall pass. Are we seeing you for the Christmas holidays?
November 21, 2021 at 05:48
Yes!
November 21, 2021 at 06:50