Qusayr Amra
The most fascinating of the Umayyad castles, with extensive fresco paintings in the audience hall and bath complex. UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985.
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The eastern tympanum shows a nude woman leaning forward with arms outstretched holding a baby which she passes to another woman seated before a wash-basin. The scene has close parallels to the representation of "Child's birth" in antiquity, especially the bath associated with the divinely begotten infants such as Dionysus, Achilles and Alexander the Great.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
The most fascinating of the Umayyad castles, with extensive fresco paintings in the audience hall and bath complex. UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985.