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Umm Qais Antiquity Museum
Housed in the Bait Rusan, a large Ottoman courtyard house reaconditioned to display sculptures, artefacts and archaological findings from Gadara
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View from Madafa (room for the reception of guests). In the courtyard, where pomegranate trees grow, are ancient columns, capitals and other building elements, as well as basalt and limestone artefacts.
The Bait Rusan was one of the largest houses in the late Ottoman village, with about twelve rooms for living, and almost as many storerooms or stables along one of the courtyard sides, and a large reception room right at the entrance (Madafa). Such residential complexes were built in several phases and extended again and again for the growing family, so that several generations lived together.
© Photos, text: Haupt & Binder
Housed in the Bait Rusan, a large Ottoman courtyard house reaconditioned to display sculptures, artefacts and archaological findings from Gadara