The Stars at Sunrise, A.D. 100:The Context of the Nabatean Zodiac

at Khirbet et-Tannur, JordanJoseph A. Greene, Judith Mckenzie,

Jeff Howry and Owen Gingerich

New Technologies and Interdisciplinary Research on ReligionMarch 12–13, 2010Taubman Center, Harvard Kennedy School of Government andCenter for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University

Khirbet et-Tannur, Jordan, October 2005

Khirbet et-Tannur, Eastern Horizon, October 2005

Khirbet et-Tannur, Spring Equinox 2010

Khirbet et-TannurExcavations 1937

Khirbet et-Tannur RAF Air Photo 1936

Khirbet et-TannurSite Plan 1937

Site plan re-oreinted east

Khirbet et-Tannur

Temple, Phase 3

Reconstruction byJudith Mckenzie andShelia Gibson

Khirbet et-Tannur Zodiac

Temple Phase 3

Cincinnati Art Museum

Amman Citadel Museum

Khirbet et-Tannur Zodiac

height approx. 80 cm.

Temple Phase 3Façade and Reconstruction

Proposed locationof the Zodiac

Sunrise at Khirbet et-TannurSpring equinox, A.D. 100

Khirbet et-Tannur Zodiac at Spring

Equinox, A.D. 100