Petra Tour: Ad Deir (Monastery)
The monumental rock façade in a magnificent mountain landscape is one of Petra's highlights. On the plateau there are further rock structures worth seeing, such as chambers, cult niches, sacrificial places, cisterns.
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Rocky slope at the northern edge of a short gorge in which there is a small relief of a camel with a guide. On the wall shown here steps lead to a niche basin, further down there are more water basins and rock chambers. Found fragments of sacrificial bowls point to the sacral significance of this place (Dalman, p. 275).
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
The monumental rock façade in a magnificent mountain landscape is one of Petra's highlights. On the plateau there are further rock structures worth seeing, such as chambers, cult niches, sacrificial places, cisterns.