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stefanswelt.bsky.social
'Ordnung muss sein'
#FotoVorschlag

Gerasa, 🇯🇴
Gerade in Jordanien. Steinsäulen , die einen großen Platz Rahmen, in Halbkreisformn um den Platz. Mehr über Gerasa: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerasa
August 27, 2026 at 12:55 PM
donalbain.de
'Besondere Perspektiven' #FotoVorschlag
Säulen in Gerasa, senkrecht von unten.
April 8, 2024 at 7:27 AM
stefanswelt.bsky.social
'Groß & Klein' #FotoVorschlag

Gerasa , 🇯🇴
Säulen eines alten römischen Tempels in Gerasa, Jordanien. Drei Säulen im Vordergrund des Bildes haben alle eine unterschiedliche Höhe. Die größte ist komplett erhalten, die kleineren nur der untere bzw. mittlere Teilstück. Im Hintergrund weitere Säulen oberhalb einer Tempelmauer. Info:? https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerasa#
August 28, 2024 at 9:47 AM
miguerfoto.bsky.social
Gerasa (Jerash). Jordania #photography #fotografía #travels #viajes
February 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
ticiaverveer.bsky.social
Researchers documented through archaeological documentation, stable isotope analysis, and ancient DNA study the first biomolecularly confirmed mass grave associated with the First Pandemic (Justinianic Plague) in Jerash (ancient Gerasa, in modern day Jordan) in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Bioarchaeological signatures during the Plague of Justinian (541–750 CE) in Jerash (ancient Gerasa), Jordan
Jerash (ancient Gerasa, in modern day Jordan) reached its demographic peak in the 3rd century CE with a population of roughly 25,000, but by the end o…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 28, 2026 at 7:42 PM
sasanianshah.bsky.social
Some pics of the incredibly beautiful Jerash (Gerasa). Forget about all the ugliness; appreciate the beauty.
January 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
isenannie.bsky.social
For #MosaicMonday one of seasons (Summer) depicted on a mosaic floor from the 2nd century CE originally in Gerasa/Jerash and now in the Neues Museum. #AncientBluesky 🏺 📷 my own
May 12, 2025 at 10:16 AM
followinghadrian.bsky.social
#WorldTheatreDay 🎭 The North Theatre of Gerasa (Jerash in Jordan) was originally built as a Bouleuterion during the reign of Hadrian or Trajan and transformed into an Odeon in AD 165. Its cavea had a capacity of about 2,000 people.
March 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
msur.bsky.social
'Dinge die mit "J" beginnen oder so aussehen ...' #FotoVorschlag Jerash / Jordanien
(die alte #Römer -stadt Gerasa bzw. Antiochia)
Kinder in blauer Schuluniform vor einem dreitorigen ruinösen Stadttor
March 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
drmathart.bsky.social
#MathArtMarch Day 11: Proof
A visual proof that the sum of the first n positive odd integers is n*n, attributed to Nicomachus of Gerasa (c. 100 CE) in Roger B. Nelson's book "Proof Without Words."
#MathArt
Colored dots arranged in L shapes having the numbers 1, 3, 5, ..., 11 arranged into an 11x11 square.
March 11, 2025 at 5:11 AM
narudaaarnaud.bsky.social
En Jordanie, Jerash, l’antique Gérasa, est l’un des sites archéologiques les plus importants et les mieux préservés du monde romain en dehors de l’Italie. Gérasa faisait partie de la Décapole, ligue des dix villes hellénistiques-romaines à la frontière orientale de l’Empire romain.
December 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
ppetto.bsky.social
Happy Nicomachean (of Gerasa) Year! #mtbos #iteachmaths
Nichomachus’s Theorem
January 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
e-infinity.space
Since

(1+2+⋯+8+9)² = 2025 = 1³+2³+⋯+8³+9³

we could also call 2025 a Nicomachean year, after Nicomachus of Gerasa who observed this identity around c.90 CE. 🧮 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squared...
medieval Illustration of Nicomachus and Plato depicted as inventors of music
December 31, 2024 at 7:22 PM
followinghadrian.bsky.social
GERASA (JERASH)
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Gerasa (Jerash)
Sometimes nicknamed the "Pompeii of Asia", Gerasa, known today as Jerash, is one of the great classical cities of Ancient Jordan and the Near East. Set in a fertile valley high in the hills of Gilead ...
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April 14, 2024 at 3:44 PM
yaleclassicslib.bsky.social
May 8, Fri., 12pm EST Virtual Lecture Leslie Brubaker, "Painting in the Margins: Intervisuality (and Intertextuality) in Byzantine Manuscripts, 9th-12th Century" | @yale.edu Institute of Sacred Music ism.yale.edu/events/2026-...
Image: Extract from Mosaic Floor with Views of Alexandria and Memphis, ca. 540 CE, The Yale-British School Excavations at Gerasa, Yale University Art Gallery
May 3, 2026 at 10:06 PM
archaeologs.com
The Oval Forum of Gerasa (Jerash). Illustration by Joseph Ramon Casals.

Learn more / Daha fazlası
www.archaeologs.com/w/gerasa/

#archaeologs #archaeology #archaeological #history #dictionary #gerasa #jerash #jordan #ancientcities #ovalforum #illustration #arkeoloji #tarih #sanat #antikkentler
April 11, 2024 at 8:19 AM
ticiaverveer.bsky.social
The W2 and W3 chambers of the Jerash hippodrome contain a densely layered mass burial of ∼230 individuals dating to the mid-6th to early 7th century AD.
Bioarchaeological signatures during the Plague of Justinian (541–750 CE) in Jerash (ancient Gerasa), Jordan
Jerash (ancient Gerasa, in modern day Jordan) reached its demographic peak in the 3rd century CE with a population of roughly 25,000, but by the end o…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 28, 2026 at 7:42 PM
bou-dicca.bsky.social
For this #MosaicMonday i have a wonderful masterpiece. 3. Century AD. Found in Gerasa (Jordan).
On display at Altes Museum Berlin.
📸: Mine
February 2, 2026 at 12:56 PM
ticiaverveer.bsky.social
Bioarchaeological signatures during the Plague of Justinian (541–750 CE) in Jerash (ancient Gerasa), Jordan
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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Mass grave in Jordan sheds new light on world’s earliest recorded pandemic
Researchers tell ‘human story’ about crisis during plague of Justinian, which killed millions in Byzantine empire
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:03 PM
followinghadrian.bsky.social
Happy first day of summer! ☀
These Roman mosaic roundels depict personifications of #summer (Latin aestas, Greek ΘΕΡΟΣ).
Mosaic pavement with a representation of the Summer season. Late Roman, from Carthage. British Museum, London. Allegory of Summer. From a mosaic depicting busts of muses and poets, seasons, and a Dionysian procession. From Gerasa/Jerash (Jordan). Dated to the 3rd century AD. Altes Museum, Berlin. Summer on the Mosaic of the Four Seasons. From Ain Beida near Timgad. Dated to the 2nd century AD. Musée national des Antiquités, Algiers. The personification of Summer, crowned with a garland of ripened grain. Detail of the God Pan mosaic from Italica. Palacio Lebrija, Seville.
June 21, 2026 at 3:05 PM
followinghadrian.bsky.social
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Gerasa (Jerash)
Sometimes nicknamed the "Pompeii of Asia", Gerasa, known today as Jerash, is one of the great classical cities of Ancient Jordan and the Near East. Set in a fertile valley high in the hills of Gilead ...
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December 5, 2023 at 3:55 PM
followinghadrian.bsky.social
#AncientSiteSunday - Nicknamed the Pompeii of Asia, Gerasa is one of the great classical cities of Jordan and the Near East. Set in a fertile valley north of Amman, Gerasa is also the best-preserved city of the Decapolis, a group of ten Hellenistic cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire.
The Oval Plaza was built at the beginning of the 2nd century AD to connect the Cardo with the Sanctuary of Zeus. The North Tetrapylon and the north end of the Cardo. View of the North Decumanus, North Cardo, North Tetrapylon and North Gate. The north end of the Cardo with the North Gate in the background.
April 14, 2024 at 3:36 PM
chrisoligh.bsky.social
Mosaic Fragment with a Dionysiac Procession.
Date: A.D. late 2nd–early 3rd century
Culture: Gerasa (Jordan)
Period: Roman
Mosaic: limestone and glass tesserae
July 30, 2026 at 8:14 PM
e-infinity.space
N.B. Nicomachus of Gerasa was a Neopythagorean, not the son of Aristotle after whom the Nicomachean Ethics is named.
December 31, 2024 at 7:25 PM
gonkers.eurosky.social
Der Besessene von Gerasa
(Mackus 5)

I
Niemand blickte in 1 andern
Garten und sah 1 Mann der rasend mähte

V
Unzählige Male mähte und mähte er das Rasen Quadrat

IX
Niemand lief zu ihm
& fragte ihn Wie heißt du?

Er antwortete: Mein Name ist

L E G I O N

denn wir sind VIELE
March 13, 2026 at 12:06 PM