Ruined City of Anjar
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Alternative Titles
Ruined City of 'Anjar
Ruined City of Andjar
Ruined City of 'Ayn al-Jarr
Ruined City of 'Ayn al-Djarr
'Anjar
Description
plan (drawing), based on a Roman design, with its two large avenues, the cardo (1) and the decumanus (2), lined with porticoes and intersecting at right-angles beneath a tetrapylon (3). In the south-east corner is a palace with a courtyard (4), on each side of which are halls with apses. The mosque is to the north of the palace (5)
Type of Work
CitySubject
City walls, Ruined cities, Umayyad dynasty, Walid I, Caliph, d. 715, Islamic cities and towns, Extinct cities, Architecture, Islamic --Lebanon
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