Jerash - The Cardo Maximus (or colonnaded street), the city's main north-south thoroughfare extending from the North Gate (seen in the distance) to the Oval Plaza. Some of the 500 columns that once lined the street were deliberately built at different heights to complement the facades of the buildings (shops) that once stood behind them.
Jerash - The Cardo Maximus - These steps and columns (and the doorway on the left of the photo) mark the entrance to the 4th century cathedral (probably little more than a modest Byzantine church). The gate and steps actually cover the remains on an earlier temple to the Nabataen god Dashura (see Petra).
Jerash - The ornate tops to three columns on the Cardo Maximus.
