Migdol Temple, looking south east
Migdol Temple, looking south east
For reading later
“...By the late Byzantine period (ca. 550 AD)...”
EXCUSE ME!
Byzantium: Roman Emperor Diocletian splits imperial administration between east and west, 285 AD - Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Turks, 1453 AD.
I like the sunken livingroom and the river rock fireplace, but those owners are crazy if the think I’m going to pay $250,000 for a two bedroom house.
After Alexander’s conquests, Pella was re-founded as a Greek city and became a member of the Decapolis. In the Roman period, the city was re-built along Roman lines and became an important center of Greco-Roman influence on the Eastern frontier. It later became a Christian center. Not long after the Arab conquest, the city was destroyed by an earthquake.
Some think Pella was the city to which the Jewish christians fled prior to the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD.
If so, they apparently took Jesus warnings in Mark 13 to heart.
