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- Tags: Aelia Capitolina
Jerusalem: Lithograph of the Ecce Homo Arch
This 19th century lithograph shows two of three arches (there would have been another small arch on the right side of the large arch), which is typical of arches built during Hadrian's time. Arches built during Herod's time were typically double…
Tags: Aelia Capitolina, Hadrian, Jerusalem, Roman
Jerusalem: Ecce Homo Arch
This picture shows the Ecce Homo arch, which was the large central arch of Hadrian's east forum. It stands over the Via Dolorosa in the Old City of Jerusalem outside the Sisters of Zion Convent. Note how more modern buildings have been built around…
Tags: Aelia Capitolina, Hadrian, Jerusalem, Roman
Madaba: Madaba Map
This map was found to be part of the mosaic floor of a 6th century CE church in Madaba, Jordan (east of the Dead Sea), and includes this map of Byzantine Jerusalem. A broad, column-lined street runs from the north gate south through the center of the…
Tags: Aelia Capitolina, Byzantine, Damascus Gate, Jerusalem, Madaba, Madaba Map, Map, Roman
Jerusalem in the Byzantine period: Map
This map of Jerusalem has a circle around the location of the modern Damascus Gate, one of the northern gates into the Old City of Jerusalem. The modern gate, which was built during the Ottoman period, sits atop a Roman gate that was built in the…
Tags: Aelia Capitolina, Damascus Gate, Hadrian, Jerusalem, Map, Ottoman, Roman
Jerusalem: Damascus Gate
A look from the north at the Damascus Gate, which is one of the northern gates into the Old City of Jerusalem. The gate that you see at the center of the photograph, as well as the walls to its right and left, are Ottoman in date, built by Suleiman…
Tags: Aelia Capitolina, Damascus Gate, Hadrian, Jerusalem, Ottoman, Roman
Jerusalem: Church of the Holy Sepulchre - aedicule of the Anastasis
This photograph shows a small aedicule, a chapel built over the rock cut empty tomb believed to belong to Jesus. It stands at the center of the rotunda, the round architectural structure that was built there by the Crusaders and right underneath the…
Madaba: Madaba Map
This map was found to be part of the mosaic floor of a 6th century CE church in Madaba, Jordan (east of the Dead Sea), and includes this map of Byzantine Jerusalem. A broad, column-lined street runs from the north gate south through the center of the…
Tags: Aelia Capitolina, Damascus Gate, Jerusalem, Madaba, Madaba Map, Map
Jerusalem: Church of the Holy Sepulchre - Tomb of Jesus
This photograph shows the interior of the Aedicule of the Anastasis, where Christians as early as the 4th century CE believed that Jesus' body was laid before his resurrection.
Jerusalem: Church of the Holy Sepulchre - Chapel of St. Helena
This photograph is taken from the Armenian chapel dedicated to Queen Helena (the mother of Constantine who was entrusted by her son to oversee the building of the church in the 4th century CE). The steps in the background are the 29 steps that lead…
Jerusalem in the Late Roman period: Map
This plan shows what Jerusalem looked like after the Roman emperor Hadrian (117-138 CE) ordered the establishment of a colony named Aelia Capitolina in 130-132 CE. Some scholars believe that a temple to Jupiter was erected on the site where the…
Tags: Aelia Capitolina, Hadrian, Jerusalem, Roman, Temple Mount
Jerusalem: Damascus Gate
This photograph shows the Damascus Gate (one of the northern entrances into the Old City of Jerusalem) and a lower, earlier doorway of the Roman gate that stood at the same place. Above the arch is a worn inscription that reads 'Colonia Ae[lia]…
Tags: Aelia Capitolina, Damascus Gate, Hadrian, Jerusalem, Ottoman, Roman
Jerusalem: Aelia Capitolina Coin
This bronze coin was minted in 131 CE and commemorates the rededication of Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina (the inscription is in Latin and reads 'COL[onia] AEL[ia] KAP[itolina]'). The picture in the middle of the coin is the façade of the temple to…
Tags: Aelia Capitolina, Bar Kokhba Revolt, Coin, Hadrian, Jerusalem, Roman
Jerusalem: Damascus Gate
This photograph shows the current day Damascus Gate (one of the northern entrances into the Old City of Jerusalem) and a lower, earlier doorway of the Roman gate of the city. Above the lower arch is a worn inscription that reads 'Colonia Ae[lia]…
Tags: Aelia Capitolina, Damascus Gate, Hadrian, Jerusalem, Ottoman, Roman