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Location

  • Jordan, Wādī Mūsá
  • geo:30.320396,35.445648
  • Location: correct and verified

Period or year

  • 100~ / unknown

Classification

  • building
  • Visible

Petra, Garden Tomb - Garden Temple

data access 31560

Thhis building was originally discribed as Garden Tomb then as Garden Tomb and recently is a Garden Triclinium. Anyway its function is as yet uncertain. There were no burials. It may have been used to supply the water for its rituals, or to supply water to Wadi Farasa

Sources:

  1. Leigh-Ann Bedal,"The Petra pool -complex: A Hellenistic paradeisos in the Nabataean capital (results from the Petra “Lower Market” survey and excavation, 1998)" (2000). Dissertations available from ProQuest. AAI9989568.
    https://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9989568
  2. https://visitpetra.jo/DetailsPage/VisitPetra/LocationsInPetraDetailsEn.aspx?PID=23.
  3. https://universes.art/en/art-destinations/jordan/petra/wadi-farasa/garden-triclinium

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2016-12-23) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/31560
Data downloads: KML
Suggested citation: , E. , Petra, Garden Tomb - Garden Temple. https://vici.org/vici/31560, accessed 2026-04-05.