Treasury Urn

ID: JSPTMM07

Treasury Urn

A detailed view of the solid Urn that crowns the Tholos of the Upper Storey of the Khazneh.

The local population at times mistakenly thought that the urn was hollow and contained a treasury (thus the name Khazneh, Arabic of "treasury') and tried to break it open by shooting at it.

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Keywords: Urn, Treasury, Khazneh, Khasneh, Pediment, Composite Columns, Petra, Nabatean, Nabateans, Aretas III Philhellene, Tomb, Tholos, Jordan, JSPTMM07
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