Petra Tour: Royal Tombs
Some of the most impressive tombs in Petra, sculpted out of the western slope of the Jabal al-Hubta rock massif, overlooking the city center.
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The interior is a large almost square chamber (18.95 x 17.15 m). On the far left of the back wall, a Greek inscription painted in red was found, according to which Bishop Jason had the complex converted into a Byzantine church in 446 AD. For liturgical reasons, the three chambers of the rear wall were transformed into three flat-vaulted apses. On the southern side of the church there is a pit grave and another one in the right apse. A marble block with the grave inscription dedicated to Dionysius, son of Bishop Jason, who died in the year 447 AD, has been preserved.
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Some of the most impressive tombs in Petra, sculpted out of the western slope of the Jabal al-Hubta rock massif, overlooking the city center.