Qaṣr al-ʻAbd (Araq el-Emir Site, Jordan)
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Name (Latin)
Qaṣr al-ʻAbd (Araq el-Emir Site, Jordan)
Other forms of name
ʻAbd, Qaṣr al- (Araq el-Emir Site, Jordan)
Castle of the Slave (Araq el-Emir Site, Jordan)
Fortress of Hyrcanus of the Tobiads (Araq el-Emir Site, Jordan)
Hyrcanus of the Tobiads, Palace of (Araq el-Emir Site, Jordan)
Palace of Hyrcanus of the Tobiads (Araq el-Emir Site, Jordan)
Palace of the Slave (Araq el-Emir Site, Jordan)
Slave, Palace of the (Araq el-Emir Site, Jordan)
Qasr al-Abd (Araq el-Emir Site, Jordan)
Coordinates
35.7518 35.7518 31.9128 31.9128 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Fortification Jordan
Palaces Jordan
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q7267043
Library of congress:
sh 93004164
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: 93103274: Will, E. ʻIraq al-Amir : le château du tobiade Hyrcan, 1991.
- Encyc. Judaica:v. 15, p. 1178.
- Princeton encyc. classic. sites:p. 82 (Qasr el-Abd, main ruin at Araq el-Emir site)
- Jordan Telecom portal, Nov. 2, 2004(Qasr al Abd (Palace of the Slave), an enormous palace built by Hyracanus of the powerful Tobiad family during the second century AD. The real reason behind the building of Qasr al Abd remains a mystery but the palace was damaged and badly wrecked by the great earthquake that hit the region in 362 AD.)
- Government of Jordan web site/Touristic sites, Nov. 11, 2004(Qasr al Abd, Castle of the Slave)
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View of Qasr Al-Abd, Amman
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File:Claude Conder - Arak el Emir – Cave no. 13 -1.jpg
Claude Reignier Conder, The survey of eastern Palestine. Memoirs of the topography, orography, hydrography, archaeology, etc. v.1--The 'Adwân country (1889) pg. 67-87, Public domain
File:Iraq al-Amir (Castle Interior).jpg
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File:Iraq al-Amir (Lion).jpg
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File:Qasr Al-Abd, Hellenistic palace dating from approximately 200 BC, Jordan (25414131268).jpg
Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0
File:Qasr al-Abd; Iraq al-Amir.jpg
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Wikipedia description:
Qasr al-Abd (Arabic: قصر العبد, lit. 'Castle of the Slave') is a large Hellenistic palace from the first quarter of the second century BCE. Most scholars agree it was built by the Tobiads, a notable Jewish family of the Second Temple period, although the descriptions doesn't mention that. Its ruins stand in modern-day Jordan in the valley of Wadi Seer, close to the village of Iraq Al-Amir, approximately 17 kilometers west of Amman.
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