Djemerrin Bridge
Coordinates: 32 ° 32 ′ 58 ″ N , 36 ° 29 ′ 46 ″ E
| Djemerrin Bridge | ||
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| Convicted | Bostra -Soada Dionysias Street | |
| Crossing of | Wadi Zeidi | |
| place | Near Bostra ( Syria ) | |
| construction | Arch bridge with vaulted vaults | |
| Number of openings | 3 | |
| Status | Expired | |
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The Djemerrin Bridge is a Roman arch bridge in the Syrian Hauran region near the ancient city of Bostra (today: Bosra asch-Scham). The bridge, which belonged to the Roman road to Soada Dionysias (today: as-Suwaida ), crossed the Wadi Zeidi a few kilometers north of Bostra.
Today the building is essentially an arched skeleton; its three round arches are made of local basalt in the shape of a wedge, while the roadway and backfilling in the arch spandrels have disappeared - presumably broken out for further local use. A structural specialty is the sloping bank fortifications on both sides of the bridge, which should force the wadi into its bed under the bridge during high tide.
At least two other Roman bridges over the Wadi Zeidi have stood the test of time, the bridge at Kharaba and the one at at-Tayyibeh.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kissel & Stoll (2000), p. 110, Fig. 1b
- ^ Kissel & Stoll (2000), p. 116, Fig. 11
- ^ Kissel & Stoll (2000), p. 117
literature
- Theodor Kissel , Oliver Stoll: The bridge at Nimreh. A testimony to Roman transport policy in Hauran, Syria , in: Antike Welt , Vol. 31, No. 2 (2000), pp. 109–125