A friend of mine took me to the hill of the Citadel this morning to see the various gods on display over there. I haven’t been to the Citadel in forever, really, as I can’t even remember when I last went there except for the detail that it was at night and that I could see the lights of Amman from the hill. So, it was a refreshing and a thoroughly amusing trip this morning…not to mention that I discovered that I have a statue fetish.

One of my, and my friend’s, favorite items in the museum at the Citadel were jars where ancient peoples in Tlilat Al Ghasoul (a place in Jordan) buried their dead. This is a picture of a child’s skeleton in one of the jars, and after that there is a picture of bigger, adult jars. Two to three corpses were placed in a single jar.

And I also liked these Roman “tear glasses:”

And, oh, the head sculptures. There were many heads and other sculptures, as well as bits of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The broad historical spectrum represented through the items was very informative. You can click here and see a collection of pictures I took today, and hopefully go to the Citadel yourself and explore a bit.