Petra
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S.T. Parker
Creators: S.T. Parker
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Francis Deblauwe, Mark Depauw, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Eric Kansa, Brady Kiesling, H. Kopp, Adam Prins, W. Röllig, B. Siewert-Mayer, R. Talbert, Jen Thum, Herbert Verreth
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Jun 08, 2018 07:30 AM
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History
Capital city of the Nabataeans located on the slope of Mount Hor.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697725
30.328611, 35.441944
- Imagery location of visible remains of Petra (330 BC - AD 640)
- Alǧī (Modern Standard Arabic, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Baṭrā (Modern Standard Arabic, unspecified date range)
- Colonia Ant. P. (Georgian, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Colonia Antoniniana P. (Georgian, 30 BC - AD 226)
- Gaia (Ancient Greek, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Petra (330 BC - AD 640)
- Petra (Ancient Greek, 2600000 BC - AD 2000)
- Petra (Ancient Greek, 540 BC - AD 650)
- Petra (English, modern)
- Reqem (Ancient Hebrew, 330 BC - AD 300)
- Vallis Moysi (AD 1099 - AD 1291)
- Wādī Mūsā (Modern Standard Arabic, 330 BC - AD 2000)
- al-Wuʿaira (Modern Standard Arabic, AD 1099 - AD 1291)
- al-Ǧāya (Modern Standard Arabic, AD 1918 - AD 2000)
- al-Ǧī (AD 300 - AD 2000)
- as-Salʿa (Modern Standard Arabic, 540 BC - 30 BC)
- Petra connection Arabia Petraia (unspecified date range)
- Great Temple of Petra connection Petra (unspecified date range)
- Temple of the Winged Lions at Petra (unspecified date range)
- Al-Khazneh connection Petra (unspecified date range)
- Roman theater at Petra connection Petra (unspecified date range)
- Street of Facades, Petra connection Petra (unspecified date range)
settlement
- Evidence:
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 71 A5 Petra
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Wadi Musa
Petra was added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1985.
S.T. Parker, Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Francis Deblauwe, Mark Depauw, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Eric Kansa, Brady Kiesling, H. Kopp, Adam Prins, W. Röllig, B. Siewert-Mayer, R. Talbert, Jen Thum, and Herbert Verreth, 'Petra: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697725> [accessed: 20 September 2018]
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