The Jordan valley and Petra . PL, PL,. The Second Hi^h Place at Petra 199 i& square, and the rocky walls on every side containhundreds of tombs and rooms carved into the sand-stone. While not more than five hundred yards awayfrom the Arch of Triumph, one might imagine thathe had gone a days journey into the heart ofthe mountains. At least four large stairways, sixto ten feet wide, ascend from the valley below tothe platform, in addition to the gallery leadingfrom the main street of the city. And here, as in the High Place above, are allthe accessories of worship. The altar faces theeast (see p
The Jordan valley and Petra . PL, PL,. The Second Hi^h Place at Petra 199 i& square, and the rocky walls on every side containhundreds of tombs and rooms carved into the sand-stone. While not more than five hundred yards awayfrom the Arch of Triumph, one might imagine thathe had gone a days journey into the heart ofthe mountains. At least four large stairways, sixto ten feet wide, ascend from the valley below tothe platform, in addition to the gallery leadingfrom the main street of the city. And here, as in the High Place above, are allthe accessories of worship. The altar faces theeast (see plan—p. 97). In front of it is a sunkencourt, seventeen by eighteen feet, with a seat aroundit with a natural rock back. Immediately contiguousis a second and lower sunken court, now a grass plotbecause filled with soil, ten by twenty-two feet, andbeyond that a still larger cutting in the rock, makinganother court eighteen by twenty-one feet. At thesoutheast corner of the grass plot a large pieceof the natural rock is left, and i
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