Petra Tour: Theater
Monumental theater with semicircular auditorium for eight thousand spectators, hewn directly from the rock in the early first century AD.
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In the foreground, the partially reconstructed scaenae or stage building, which was built of ashlar and faced with marble. Behind it, the large auditorium or cavea, hewn directly from the rock.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
Monumental theater with semicircular auditorium for eight thousand spectators, hewn directly from the rock in the early first century AD.