Letter U

298b. ‘Udhruḥ / Augustopolis | أُذرُح (أوغوستوبولس)

Ma‘ān Governorate

Ḥājj fort, Qal‘a

JADIS no. 2097002

MEGA no. 42583, 9771

Coordinates: 30°19'48.0"N 35°35'45.5"E

30.330006, 35.595972

 

 

Plan: rectangular with entrance door opening to the E, in the interior rooms aligned along the walls around small courtyard.

Measurements: unknown.

Exterior: unknown.

Interior: unknown.

Building Materials: local brownish limestone.

Construction details: masonry of well-dressed limestone blocks in irregular isodomic arrangement with use of mortar. Above the entrance door sits a machicolation box with an arched upper end on three corbels. In the upper floor loopholes, in the E façade three on each side of the machicolation box.

Preservation: ruined, recently conserved, accessible from the Roman castrum. The machicolation box is dismantled today.

Inscription(s): none reported.

Date(s): Ottoman.

Traveler Reports: none known.

Bibliography: Petersen 2012, 212-213 pl. 186-190

 
Fig.298b.1 Topographic map of Legionary fortress, Ottoman fort in- dicated by red circle (Killick 1983).
Fig. 298b.2 Exterior view E façade, door and machicolation box in present condition (TMW-K 2013).
Fig. 298b.2a Exterior view from NE (TMW-K 2013).
Fig. 298b.3 Exterior E façade, detail of machicolation box in ca. 1986 (Petersen 2012, pl. 190).

Figures

[Fig.298b.1 ]
Topographic map of Legionary fortress, Ottoman fort in- dicated by red circle (Killick 1983).

[Fig. 298b.2 ]
Exterior view E façade, door and machicolation box in present condition (TMW-K 2013).

[Fig. 298b.2a]
Exterior view from NE (TMW-K 2013).

[Fig. 298b.3 ]
Exterior E façade, detail of machicolation box in ca. 1986 (Petersen 2012, pl. 190).