Petra Great Temple

[Hrafnkell]

I made this wonder for Rob's Anno Domini mod, for the Nabataean civ, which I've always found fascinating. I don't know if he has room for it in the mod given the limits imposed by the C3C editor but I felt inspired. It is the Great Temple of Petra. Given its place in Petran society and religion, I would give it attributes similar to the Parthenon. If I was going to start up my old Hellenistic Kingdoms project I would make an improvement called "cisterns" and make that a prereq for the temple based on articles I've read recently on the Nabataean use of water.

The pedia pic is based on a reconstruction of the temple by Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos, "A New Plan of Petra's City Center," Near Eastern Archaeology, 65 (Dec., 2002), 251-254. Kanellopoulos holds a Ph.D. in Classical Architecture from the University of Athens. The wondersplash is from a computer generated reconstruction of the temple's facade by Eileen L. Vote and shows the later version of the temple with the theatron visible inside where the cella would normally be found.

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Civ Pedia Txt:

Dedicated to Dushares, the patron deity of Petra, and begun by Aretas IV (9/8 BCE-39/40 CE) the Great Temple was one of the main components of central Petra. Entered by a flight of monumental stairs from a colonnaded street, it is the largest freestanding building so far excavated in Petra. Developed over a period of two centuries, a theatron was later added inside, facing a processional court, to be used for sacred performances.

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[Zenon_pt]

I'm lost! Petra had a great temple???

 

[Hrafnkell]

Petra had many temples...this was the biggie, to Petra what the Parthenon was to Athens or the Temple of Iuppiter Capitolinus to Rome or the Temple of Solomon to Jerusalem. That kind of great temple. No one knows what it was called in ancient times but it has been dubbed "the Great Temple" by archaeologists.

 

[Virote_Considon]

Looking good!

I may actually use it as a Greek Asclepieion in my Scenario, as it looks like it can fit the bill perfectly

 

[Hrafnkell]

Thanks! I actually tried to make the Asclepeion a year or two ago and gave up. I'm glad it fits the bill!

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

It looks good; thanks for thinking of Anno Domini!!

 

[Hrafnkell]

You're welcome. It's easy to draw inspiration from a mod as good as Anno Domini. My biggest gripe about Civ was always "why do I have to go into the modern era?" and now I don't.