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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Tombs of the type Single Pylon, Double Pylon, and Step, with the theater in the background.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
Monumental theater with semicircular auditorium for eight thousand spectators, hewn directly from the rock in the early first century AD.
Frieze with a row of crowsteps (stepped merlons) over a relief moulding, and sometimes another narrow, plain frieze.
Two friezes of crowsteps with relief mouldings above and below.
Two sets of steps facing each other, over a cavetto (concave moulding) cornice, and fascia (horizontal, threefold mouldings, projecting from bottom to top).