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Al-Khazneh

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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tags: extant remains, UWHS

An elaborate, rock-cut monument at Petra built ca. 100 BC to AD 200 known as "Al-Khazneh" or "The Treasury". The Nabatean structure, originally used as a tomb, dates to the reign of Aretas IV Philopatris.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/794388242

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
30.322262725, 35.45157105

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Al-Khazneh (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- OSM location of The Treasury (Al-Khazneh) (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

None

Al-Khazneh makes connections with:

Al-Khazneh part of (regional) Nabataea (region) (30 BC - AD 300)
Al-Khazneh part of (analytical) Petra (30 BC - AD 300)

Al-Khazneh receives connections from:

None

Place type:
tomb, monument

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Al-Khazneh: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/794388242> [accessed: 22 January 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/794388242 |title=Places: 794388242 (Al-Khazneh) |author=Becker, J., T. Elliott |accessdate=January 22, 2025 8:48 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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Al-Khazneh