Amman, JordanWednesday, January 23, 2013
This morning we set off with a small bus full of colleagues to see some of the local sites. Our original destination was the Ottoman city of Salt, but local events re-routed us to this fantastic site just a few miles from home: Qasr al Mushatta, an unfinished 8th century Umayyed palace. A newly installed plaque tells us that its partial re-construction was completed in 2011. Wonderful place!
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| Is that a Type I or Type II frieze pattern? |
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| Used to reconstruct one of the arches? |
