قلعة دير القن و ملحقاتها المعمارية

Abstract EN

This research presents an archaeological study of historical site in the northeast Jordan—" Deir el-Qin" castle.

The site was a rest house and a station for Nabatean trade caravans passing through the region.

The pottery pieces found scattered as well as the remains of walls affirm this theory.

Later in that period, a control tower was built on a rocky hill to allow for more and better surveillance of the surrounding areas, and a pool was added later to the north of this tower in the Roman period.

This castle was reused as a monastery in the Byzantine era—mostly the rooms in the western part where a cross carved on a stone in the arch inside one of them was found.

In the Islamic period, the castle continued to be used though no construction additions appear in the site.

But the pieces of pottery affirm the presence of the Islamic era throughout the Umayyed, Mamluki, Ayyubid, and the Ottoman periods.

The castle was evidently used as a rest house for travelers and pilgrims passing the old trade route.