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Location:

  • Jordan, Wādī Mūsá
  • geo:30.328651,35.44286
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • 1~ / unknown

Class:

  • Building (other)
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=31588

Annotations

Excavations beginning in 1998 indicated the so called Lower Market  adjacent to the "Great Temple" may be the location of a formal garden with a pool.
The Petra Garden and Pool Complex is located on an artificial terrace overlooking the Colonnaded Street in the city centre. It was built during the reign of the Nabataean king, Aretas IV  Philopatris (9 BC-40 AD) .

Sources:

  1. Leigh-Ann Bedal, A Pool Complex in Petra's City Center, BASOR vol. 324, 2001, pp.23-41
  2. Leigh-Ann Bedal,, Desert Oasis: Water Consumption and Display in the Nabataean Capital,  Near Eastern Archaeology, Vol. 65, No. 4, Petra: A Royal City Unearthed, (Dec., 2002), pp. 225-234
  3. Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, Planting pots at Petra: a preliminary study of ollae perforatae at the Petra Garden Pool Complex and at the'Great Temple' ,  Levant Vol. 38, ,2006 , pp.159-170
  4. http://mysite.du.edu/~lconyer/petra/petra02.html
  5. https://petragardenexcavation.wordpress.com/project-history-2/

Petra, Market


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.


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Petra, Colonnaded Street

Petra, Colonnaded Street

Petra, Wadi Musa

Petra, Wadi Musa


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