Identifier: gri_000033125009344702 (find matches)
Title: Journey through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the excavated city of Petra, the edom of the prophesis
Year: 1836 (1830s)
Authors: Laborde, Léon, marquis de, 1807-1869 Murray, John, 1778-1843, publisher Spottiswoode, Andrew, printer Day & Haghe, lithographer
Subjects: Fouilles (Archéologie)
Publisher: London : John Murray, Albemarle Street
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ISOLATED COLUMN. CHAPTER X. PLAN OF PETRA. TOMB IN TWO STYLES.— ISOLATED COLUMN. TOMB LEFT UNFINISHED.— RUINS OF A TEMPLE. MONU-MENTAL RESIDENCE. RIVER OF PETRA. TRIUMPHAL ARCH. COLOSSAL TEMPLE. A THEATRE. DEFILE OF PETRA. GREEK INSCRIPTION. — THE KHASNE. TREA-SURY OF PHARAOH. INTERIOR OF THE KHASNE. VIEW OF THE ARCH FROM THE RAVINE. Ihe reader should place before him the map ofPetra, in order that he might the more clearlycomprehend the mode in which we spent our timethere. We arrived from the south, and descended
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o / PETRA. 153 by the ravine which presents itself near the borderor margin below. By advancing a little in thatdirection we commanded a view of the whole citycovered with ruins, and of its superb enclosure ofrocks, pierced with myriads of tombs, which forma series of wondrous ornaments all round. Astonished by these countless excavations \ I a Some hundred yards be-low this spring begin the out-skirts of the vast Necropolis ofPetra. Many door-ways are vi-sible, upon different levels cut inthe side of the mountain, whichtowards this part begins to as-sume a more rugged aspect; themost remarkable tombs standnear the road, which follows thecourse of the brook. The first ofthese is on the right hand, and iscut in a mass of whitish rock,which is in some measure insu-lated and detached from thegeneral range. The centre re-presents the front of a squaretower, with pilasters at the cor-ner, and with several successivebands of frieze and entablatureabove; two low wings projectfrom it at right

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