Petra Tour: Wadi Farasa East
Coming from Jabal al-Madhbah, the tour continues through the idyllic valley. Highlights are the Garden Triclinium, the Soldier Tomb complex, with the large colourful triclinium, and the Renaissance Tomb.
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Associated to the Soldier's Tomb (also in some formal details) is a hall for ritual banquets carved out of the rock (BD 235) on the opposite side of the former colonnaded courtyard. During the banquets in honour of the deceased, the guests reclined on three benches (klinai – see the interior).
On the plain facade of this triclinium there were three doors, each with a window above it. The left door was destroyed by a chamber that was later roughly knocked out, and above the middle one the division to the window has been broken away.
The large groove from the middle of the façade to far to the right probably served as a support for one of the three colonnades that lined the courtyard.
© Photos, text: Haupt & Binder
Coming from Jabal al-Madhbah, the tour continues through the idyllic valley. Highlights are the Garden Triclinium, the Soldier Tomb complex, with the large colourful triclinium, and the Renaissance Tomb.