Tracing the origins of glass tesserae from the Roman city of Gerasa in northwest Jordan.
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The city of Gerasa in northwestern Jordan was an important economic and cultural centre in the Eastern Roman Empire and later the Byzantine Empire, and one of the cities that made up the Decapolis (self-governing cities with populations largely made up of Greeks and Romans in an area otherwise dominated by local cultures). The city covered about 800 000 m² in Early Roman times, and was home to a number of important public buildings and temples, including the Artemision, a temple to the goddess Artemis, and one of the largest religious buildings in the Roman world. From the fifth century these were largely succeeded by Christian churches, with a new phase of building showing the importance of the city in the Byzantine period.
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