Qasr al-Abd

Qasr al-Abd
Qasr al-Abd
	View of Qasr al-Abd
	Location within Jordan
General information
Architectural style	Hellenistic
Town or city	Iraq al-Amir
Country	Jordan
Coordinates	31°54′46″N 35°45′06″E / 31.9128°N 35.7518°E
Completed	first quarter of the second century BCE (200-175 BCE)

Qasr al-Abd (Arabic: قصر العبد, lit. 'Castle of the Slave') is a large Hellenistic palace from the first quarter of the second century BCE.^[1] Most scholars agree it was built by the Tobiads, a notable Jewish family of the Second Temple period, although the descriptions doesn't mention that.^[2] Its ruins stand in modern-day Jordan in the valley of Wadi Seer, close to the village of Iraq Al-Amir, approximately 17 kilometers west of Amman.

^ Magness, Jodi (August 2012). The Archaeology of the Holy Land from the Destruction of Solomon's Temple to the Muslim Conquest (1st ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521124133.
^ Richardson, Peter; Fisher, Amy Marie (2017-09-04). Herod: King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans (2 ed.). London: Routledge. p. 231. doi:10.4324/9781315163352. ISBN 978-1-315-16335-2.

[Magness-1] Magness, Jodi (August 2012). The Archaeology of the Holy Land from the Destruction of Solomon's Temple to the Muslim Conquest (1st ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521124133.

[2] Richardson, Peter; Fisher, Amy Marie (2017-09-04). Herod: King of the Jews and Friend of the Romans (2 ed.). London: Routledge. p. 231. doi:10.4324/9781315163352. ISBN 978-1-315-16335-2.

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