Seek (Petra)

It is L Kazu seeing it from seeking it (treasury)

Niche in the entrance to seek

(Arabic :السيقal-Siq‎, English: the shaft) to seek is an entrance to ancient city Petra in the southern part of Jordan. It is the passage where approximately 1.2 kilometers (3/4 mile) undulated, and it is L Kazu who is the most minute remains of Petra, and the dusky, small gorge (there is not 3 meters in width depending on a place, too) arrives at (treasury).

Seeking it is formed under the influence of crustal movement and is geological feature dislocation of nature sharpened smoothly by erosion of the water. The high obstacle to surround seeking it becomes 91-182 meters (300-600 feet) [¹].

There was a huge dam rebuilt again in 1963 and 1991 at the entrance of seeking it and was made to change the waterway of wadi Muses without seeking it. Nabataean made the dam to maintain wadi Muses at the beginning of the first century after A.D. from the first century B.C., and is restored considerably exactly. There are only some stones which cuts it, and collapsed of two abutments and arch in itself as remnants of the commemorative gate again at the entrance. The arch collapsed after an earthquake in 1896, but the appearance is known by a lithograph work of David Roberts (David Roberts) [¹].

Seeking it was used as an entrance of the important caravan to Petra. Along both walls of the slit, there is many hollow (niche) dedicated to including bethel (baetyli) and suggests that it was respected by people of ナバテア seeking it. When digging was accomplished to lower the passage more than 1.8 meters (6 feet) in 1998, one statue was discovered. In the upper part, it is considerably eroded, but can still recognize the image of two camels which two merchants and each pull. The image almost becomes 2 double the size of of the equal body [¹].

There are some basements along seeking it, but the function has not been yet clarified. The possibility that they were graves is denied, and it is said that the archeologist is hard to believe that they were houses. It is said that they took the watch position who followed an entrance tongue to Petra for the major opinion [¹].

Allied item

• Petra
• It is L Kazu

Footnote

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Fabio Bourbon, Petra: Jordan's Extraordinary Ancient City. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1999 (ISBN 0-7607-2022-3)

References

• Parr, Peter, "Dating the Hydraulic Installations in the Siq at Petra," Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 140,2 (2008), 81-86.

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