Letter Q
283. Qaṭrāna | القطرانة
al-Kerak Governorate
Ḥājj fort / Qal‘at, muṣallā
JADIS no. 2407025
MEGA no. 2685
Coordinates: 31°14'31.1"N 36°02'22.1"E
31.241975, 36.039461
Plan: square muṣallā in SW tower, entrance from E.
Measurements: unknown.
Exterior: unknown.
Interior: unknown.
Building Materials: yellow-brown local limestone.
Construction details: unknown. Die photograph published by Brünnow and von Domaszeswki (Provincia Arabia II, 84 fig. 667, here fig. 283.4) shows the SW room of the upper floor covered by a dome which indicates that it had been in use as a muṣallā by the garrison and pilgrims in the late 19th century. The loophole in the S wall served as the miḥrab.
Preservation: restored.
Inscription(s): none known.
Date(s): AD 1531
Traveler Reports: “Kothrany ist also höchst wahrscheinlich Castra Arnonensia, weil der Mûdscheb von dorther zu kommen scheint” (Seetzen 1854). “The Khan does not look very old...There are three small cannons in it, said to have been placed there by Ibrahim Pascha...” (Gray Hill 1897, quoted in Provincia Arabia II).
Bibliography: Seetzen 1854, I, 413; Burckhardt 1822, 658; Hill 1897,40; Provincia Arabia II, 84-85 fig. 667; Alamy 1973, 6; Housan 2007, 13-20; Housan 2008, 130-144; Petersen 2012; Shqour 2015, 100-102; 175-183; Tabbah - Taylor 2016, 286-287; Shqour 2019, 96- 99; 353-361; Schick 2020, no. 96.
Fig. 283.1 Plan of the environment of the fort with open cistern and the Wādī Ḥanīfa (DoA). 
Fig. 283.2 Panoramic view of fort and the cistern to NE (TMW-K 2016). 
Fig. 283.3 Plan of upper floor of the fort, dome over SW room indica- ted by hatched red circle (DoA). 
Fig. 283.4 Exterior view from NW on 1896, dome over SW room indi- cated by red circle (Provincia Arabia II,84 fig. 66.). 
Fig. 283.5 Exterior view of fort beyond Wādī Ḥanīfa from SE (TMK- K 2016). 
