Khirbet et-Tannur

Khirbet et-Tannur (Arabic: خربة التنور) is an ancient Nabataean temple situated on top of Mount Tannur, in today's Jordan.

Whom the temple was dedicated to is not yet certain; based on the iconography of the deities depicted, it was either the fertility goddess Atargatis and Zeus-Hadad, or perhaps other Nabataean gods with similar attributes.

The remains of Khirbet et-Tannur consists only of the temple complex on an isolated mountain top, which indicate a site solely functioning as a religious high place similar to those in other Nabataean regions.

[7] The final phase was dated by Nelson Glueck judging from the temple's sculptures and architectural principles to about the first quarter of the second century AD.

[8] A study of ceramics, animal bones and charred plant remains has shown social memories were created through various eating and drinking practices.

Nabataean sculpture of eagle wrestling with serpent. In J. McKenzie's reconstruction, it was placed above the female deity relief (see photo here below) [ 9 ]
Nabataean depiction of either Atargatis or, according to R. Wenning, a personification of Ayn La'ban spring; from tympanum over main entrance to the Inner Temenos Enclosure [ 9 ]