Wadi Matar 2C - Arabie Saoudite

3D Model

Wadi Matar 2C is an ancient temple oriented to the east. The visible remains consists of a rectangular central building (ca. 12 x 7 m) preceded by a terrace and a couple of steps leading up to it in the middle of the western face of the structure. Around this central building, one can see a sacred precinct of standing stones of a roughly rectangular shape. One can see a main gate in the middle of the western side and a second more modest access by the north-eastern corner. This sacred enclosure can be dated to the Ancient South Arabian period (ca. beginning of the 1st mill. BC). The central building, on the other hand, dates back to the first centuries of the Common Era, when a Roman military detachment was sent to the archipelago. The photogrammetric coverage of the buildings was realised in January 2019 in the frame of the Saudi-French archaeological mission to the Farasan Islands (SCTH, University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne). Director of mission Solène Marion de Procé