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Street of Facades, Petra

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

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The so-called "Street of Facades" is a necropolis that is lined with tall, rock-cut tombs that have elaborate facades.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/169016720

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
30.3240365633, 35.4475813662

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Street of Facades (140 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

None

Street of Facades, Petra makes connections with:

Street of Facades, Petra connection Petra (unspecified date range)

Street of Facades, Petra receives connections from:

None

Place type:
catacomb, cemetery, necropolis

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See Further:

Wikipedia (English) Petra

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Street of Facades, Petra: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/169016720> [accessed: 18 December 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/169016720 |title=Places: 169016720 (Street of Facades, Petra) |author=Becker, J., T. Elliott |accessdate=December 18, 2024 11:57 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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Street of Facades, Petra