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Surroundings:

Petra, Wadi Farasa, Tombs on the pilgrimage route to the High Place of SacrificePetra, Tomb of a Roman officerPetra, Colored triclinium, Wall with pilasters and nichesPetra, Colored tricliniumPetra, Colored triclinium, Wall with pilasters and nichesPetra, Colored tricliniumPetra, Colored triclinium, Entrance from insidePetra, Colored triclinium, Square in facade of the soldiers tombPetra, Colored triclinium, EntrancePetra, Colored tricliniumPetra, High place sacrifice road/stairsPetra, High place sacrifice road/stairsPetra, High place sacrifice road/stairsPetra, High place sacrificePetra, High place sacrificePetra, High place sacrificePetra, High place sacrificePetra, High place sacrificePetra, Lion fountainPetra, High place sacrifice obeliskPetra, High place sacrifice obeliskPetra, High place sacrifice obeliskPetra, TheaterPetra, TheaterPetra, TheaterPetra, TheaterPetra, TheaterPetra, TheaterPetra, Siq, Treasury, Columned niche with winged figurePetra, Outer siq, Street of facades

Location:

  • Jordan, Wādī Mūsá
  • geo:30.321602,35.444721
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • 75~ / unknown

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=31549

Annotations

The Renaissance Tomb built in the second century AD. On the facade are cut rinto the rock six Nabatean jars crowns by a gable with three urns in it. Tomb is called so  because the archivolt with an urn on top evokes such elements of the Italian Renaissance architecture

Sources:

  1. Rudolf-Ernst Brünnow and Alfred von Domaszewski: Die Provincia Arabia, Volume 1., Verlag Karl J. Trübner, Strasbourg 1904.
  2. https://universes.art/en/art-destinations/jordan/petra/wadi-farasa/renaissance-tomb
  3. Courtney Dotson Ewer, Nabataean Subadult Mortuary Practices, Brigham Young University BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017, https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7316&context=etd

Relevant museums

Petra, Archaeological Museum

Petra, Archaeological Museum

Amman, Jordan Museum

The new historical museum of Jordan; substantial archaeological collection.

Archeologisch museum van Amman

Het oude archeologische museum van Jordanië.


Nearby

Petra, Broken Pediment Tomb

Broken Pediment Tomb

Petra, Obodas Chapel

Nabatean sanctuary.

Petra, Soldier`s Tomb

Petra, Soldier`s Tomb / Statues Tomb /Coloured Hall.


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