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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of a step tomb cut from Moghar en-Nasara at Petra. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the inner ceiling of the Urn Tomb at Petra. This tomb which may have housed either King Malchus II or Aretas IV expresses Hellenistic inspiration in its pilasters and semi-committed columns. It was converted into a church by bishop Jason in 447 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the Khazneh or Treasury (1st century B.C.E.) at Petra; likely the tomb of the royal family of Arethas III. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Close-up view of the columns of the Urn Tomb at Petra. This tomb which may have housed either King Malchus II or Aretas IV expresses Hellenistic inspiration in its pilasters and semi-committed columns. It was converted into a church by bishop Jason in 4 -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of an arch from the interior of the Urn Tomb at Petra. This tomb which may have housed either King Malchus II or Aretas IV expresses Hellenistic inspiration in its pilasters and semi-committed columns. It was converted into a church by Bishop Jason -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the interior of the Siq at Petra. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of a votive niche at Petra. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the water channel in the Siq at Petra. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the Obelisk Tomb with triclinium (dinner room for funerary rites) below at Petra. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the Dijin Blocks, some of the oldest monuments at Petra. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the Dijin Blocks at Petr; the purpose of these boulders remains unknown. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of a step tomb cut from Moghar en-Nasara at Petra. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: The tomb of Sextius Florentinus at Petra. Sextius was governor of the Roman province of Arabia in ca. 126-130. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the steps to the Propylaea or gateway to the temple precinct at Petra. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the temenos gate at Petra, with Qasr el-Bint visible through the gate. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View along the Colonnaded Street toward the temnos gate with the Qasr el-Bint in the background. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the Corinthian Tomb (right) and the Palace Tomb (left) at Petra. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Close-up view of the columns (top panel) of the Palace Tomb at Petra, whose façade has been thought to imitate a Roman three-story palace. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Close-up view of the door to the Palace Tomb at Petra, whose façade has been thought to imitate a Roman three-story palace. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the theater at Petra, perhaps first constructed in the first century C.E. but then expanded under Roman rule in the second century. Its seating capacity may have been as high as 8,000. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the Palace Tomb at Petra, whose façade has been thought to imitate a Roman three-story palace. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the Corinthian Tomb from Petra. This tomb combines a variety of styles; the top mirrors the El Khazneh treasury, while the bottom copies the triclinium Bab Al-Siq. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of natural pillars and cave at Petra. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of tombs from Petra. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of tombs at Petra, southeast of the Theater. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: View of the Khazneh (="Treasury"; ca. first century B.C.E.) at Petra; likely the tomb of the royal family of Arethas III.