Northern Decumanus

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This street runs from the North Theatre through the North Tetrapylon and on to the West Baths. The section between the North Theatre and the Basilica and Agora area is one of the best preserved in all of Jarash, with its cambered road surface and paving stones having remained remarkably well intact. Several of the manhole covers along the sewer beneath it even still have their iron lifting rings.

This street runs from the North Theatre through the North Tetrapylon and on to the West Baths. The section between the North Theatre and the Basilica and Agora area is one of the best preserved in all of Jarash, with its cambered road surface and paving stones having remained remarkably well intact. Several of the manhole covers along the sewer beneath it even still have their iron lifting rings.

The Ionic colonnades bordering the street look identical to those that run along the North end of the Cardo, however they do not date from Trajan’s reign. They were built later from stones most likely recycled from the colonnades of the central part of the main thoroughfare, which would have been dismantled and reused to embellish the North Decumanus when the Cardo was widened in the second half of the 2nd century.

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