Jerash, Irbid & the Jordan Valley - Jordan - page 221

3 Beit Heshboni C2

4 Beit Malkawi C3

5 Girls' School B2

6 North Theatre C2

7 Nymphaeum A2

8 Ottoman Mosque C3

9 Shops B2

Eating

10 Shine Cottage Grilling B3

11 Umm Qais Resthouse B2

Sights

West Theatre
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Entering the site from the south, the first structure of interest is the well-restored and
brooding West Theatre. Constructed from black basalt, it once seated about 3000 people.
This is one of two such theatres - the North Theatre is overgrown and missing the ori-
ginal black basalt rocks which were recycled by villagers in other constructions.

AMPHITHEATRE

Basilica Terrace
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A bit of imagination is needed to reconstruct the next structure - a colonnaded court-
yard , the western section of which housed a row of shops Offline map Google map
(the shells of which remain). More interesting are the remains of the 6th-century church ,
with an unusual octagonal interior sanctum, marked today by the remaining basalt
columns. The church was destroyed by earthquakes in the 8th century.

RUIN

Decumanus Maximus

STREET