Petra Tour: Wadi Farasa East
Coming from Jabal al-Madhbah, the tour continues through the idyllic valley. Highlights are the Garden Triclinium, the Soldier Tomb complex, with the large colourful triclinium, and the Renaissance Tomb.
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At the top of the rocky outcrop of the Garden Triclinium, behind the large cistern, are the carved walls of a hall building (BD 246). It was probably a banqueting hall, to which one climbed up the stairs to the upper floor of the Garden Triclinium and from there to the cistern.
Over the 7.80 m wide and 9 m long room, which was hewn out of the rock, there used to be a barrel vault, which can be recognized by the arched recess in the rear wall. It was supported by brick arches that rested in the rectangular niches of the walls.
© Photos, text: Haupt & Binder
Coming from Jabal al-Madhbah, the tour continues through the idyllic valley. Highlights are the Garden Triclinium, the Soldier Tomb complex, with the large colourful triclinium, and the Renaissance Tomb.
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.