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Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by Alexander Iannaeus (ruled 103-76 BCE) and restored by king Herod the Great. St. John Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded in this fortress. The hill seen from afar.
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Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built b...

Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by Alexander Iannaeus (ruled 103-76 BCE) and restored by king Herod the Great. St. John Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded in this fortress. Columns of Herodes' palace.
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Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by...

Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by Alexander Iannaeus (ruled 103-76 BCE) and restored by king Herod the Great. St. John Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded in this fortress. Columns of Herodes' palace.
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Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by...

Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by Alexander Iannaeus (ruled 103-76 BCE) and restored by king Herod the Great. St. John Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded in this fortress. Columns of Herodes' palace.
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Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by...

Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by Alexander Iannaeus (ruled 103-76 BCE) and restored by king Herod the Great. St. John Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded in this fortress.
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Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by...

Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by Alexander Iannaeus (ruled 103-76 BCE) and restored by king Herod the Great. St. John Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded in this fortress. Columns of Herodes' palace.
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Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by...

Priam, king of Troy, on the walls of Troy. Frieze on the tomb of a Lycian prince. Limestone relief from the west side of the Heroon of Goelbasi-Trysa in Lycia, Turkey (380 BCE). Detail Overall dimension 110 x 750 cm
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Priam, king of Troy, on the walls of Troy. Frieze on the tomb of a Lycian...

Part of an inscription: "KR" (King Kroisos has dedicated...) - Marble fragment (550 BCE) of a columna caelata of the Artemis Temple Ephesus, Turkey Length 13 cm - Inv. B 16
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Part of an inscription: "KR" (King Kroisos has dedicated...) - Marble f...

Heroon of Goelbaschi-Trysa in Lykia, Turkey. Model of a wall-enclosed tomb of a Lykian king with limestone reliefs (early 4th BCE)
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Heroon of Goelbaschi-Trysa in Lykia, Turkey. Model of a wall-enclosed...

Entrance to a private house in Pompeii. The inscription on the floor says: "Salve lucrum" - "Welcome,wealth"
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Entrance to a private house in Pompeii. The inscription on the floor...

Atrium of the House of Obellius Firmus, Pompeii. In the center a "cartibulum", a table with a cylindrical base, on which stood the fountain- statue of a faun, behind it a marble table. 1st CE
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Atrium of the House of Obellius Firmus, Pompeii. In the center a "cartibulum", a...

Garden furniture, marble; atrium of the House of Obellius Firmus, Pompeii. In the center a "cartibulum", a table with cylindrical base, on which stood the fountain-statue of a faun. 1st CE
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Garden furniture, marble; atrium of the House of Obellius Firmus, Pompeii. In th...