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265. Muqawir / Mekawer / Machaerus | مكاور

Mādabā Governorate
Maqām Nebi Yaḥyāh
JADIS no.: 2010001
MEGA no.: 9375
Coordinates:
31.567500, 35.623889

 

 

Plan: No specific architectonic structure for religious purposes has been recorded so far. The site consists of an Hasmonean fortress which was subsequently changed into a Herodian palace.

Measurements: no maqām known.

Exterior: unknown.

Interior: unknown.

Building Materials: unknown.

Construction details: unknown.

Preservation: unknown.

Inscription(s): none known

Date(s): unknown.

Traveler Reports: none known (related to Islamic veneration of the site.

Bibliography: HSJ 46-47; Vörös I-III, 2013-2019.

 
Fig. 265.1 Topographic plan (Vörös I. 2013, 139 fig. 128).
 
Fig. 265.2 Panorama view of the mount with the fortress palace, in the foreground traces of the ancient aqueduct (TM-K 2013).
 
Fig. 265.3 Reconstruction of the Palace in the 1st century AD (Vörös III, 2019 70 fig. 49).
Fig. 265.3a Hypothetical reconstruction of the colonnaded Doric atrium in the Herodian Palace (Vörös III, 2019, 72 fig. 50).
Fig. 265.4 View of the peristyle courtyard, in previous restoration with Ionic capitals (TMW-K 2013).

Figures

[Fig. 265.1 ]
Topographic plan (Vörös I. 2013, 139 fig. 128).

[Fig. 265.3 ]
Reconstruction of the Palace in the 1st century AD (Vörös III, 2019 70 fig. 49).

[Fig. 265.3a]
Hypothetical reconstruction of the colonnaded Doric atrium in the Herodian Palace (Vörös III, 2019, 72 fig. 50).

[Fig. 265.4 ]
View of the peristyle courtyard, in previous restoration with Ionic capitals (TMW-K 2013).