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.
Jerash - The Nymphaeum was the main ornamental fountain of the city, dedicated to the water nymphs. Built in about AD 191, the two story construction was originally elaborately decorated, faced with marble slabs on the lower level, plastered on the upper level, and topped with a half dome. Water would cascade over the façade into a large pool at the front, with the overflow pouring out through seven carved lions' heads into drains in the street below.
