On the left you can see the remains of the rock facade BD 66, which collapsed in 1847. There was a Greek grave inscription for a certain Arrianos from Petra, who was "dragged to Hades" by an illness at the age of 27 and had to leave his old mother in deep mourning. The inscription was copied at that time, but later lost. A tympanum relief with a figurative representation (funerary banquet?) was also found on the tomb.
Still visible at the site are the remnants of a rhomboid-metope frieze, above it, a small pilaster with a cassetted surface and to the right, a larger pilaster with Nabataean capital.
The tomb was built after the end of the Nabataean Kingdom, possibly in the 3rd to 5th century AD.
© Photo, text: Haupt & Binder
From Al-Khazneh Plaza through the Outer Siq to the Street of Facades lined with once magnificent tombs. Up to the Uneishu Tomb and on to the Theatre Necropolis.
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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.
