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Diagonally opposite Al-Khazneh, behind a rocky outcrop, is the Hegra type grave numbered BD 64. Its heavily weathered facade, which has broken away on the left side, is still 20 m high and just over 13 m wide.
In the burial chamber there are nine wall shafts and three sinkholes. During archaeological investigations in 1979/80, experts from the Jordanian Antiquities Administration found remains of grave goods and utensils that had escaped the grave robbers. These include lamps and goblets from the 1st to the 5th century AD as well as a silver denarius of Septimius Severus from the years between 201 and 210 AD.
(Source: F. Zayadine, p. 45)
© Photo, text: Haupt & Binder, Universes in Universe
The most famous monument in Petra, the 39-meters-high mausoleum for a Nabataean king or queen, carved deep into the rock face during the first half of the 1st century AD.
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Two sets of five steps over a cavetto (concave moulding) cornice, and fascia (horizontal mouldings). A non-decorative attic above the classical entablature, supported by the pilasters. "Hegra" refers to the second largest Nabataean settlement on the southern border of the kingdom, today's Mada'in Salih in Saudi Arabia.
Rudolf-Ernst Brünnow and Alfred von Domaszewski: Die Provincia Arabia, Volume 1.
Verlag Karl J. Trübner, Strasbourg 1904.
The catalogue of grave facades and other monuments in Petra, compiled by the researchers during their travels in 1897 and 1898, still serves as a reference today - abbreviated BD or Br. with the respective number.
