Archaeological site Mesopotamia and the Levant
Petra
Ancient rock-cut historical city in Jordan
- Dated from 800 BCE
- Also called Petra, Jordan, Mint of Petra
A place,
and the traditions
recorded there.
Sites, not believers
Within the site
Inside Petra
4 recorded places within the site, from their own records.
What this means
A place listed here names this site as its whole or its location in its own record; the build reads that from the place’s end, so the row is computed rather than stated by the site. It does not imply that the site as a whole was a place of worship, that its parts were in use at the same time, or that these are all the places it held.
Site history & evidence
What is documented here
Each kind of evidence on its own row, because they do not add up.
| Evidence | On record | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| Site date | Dated from 800 BCE On the timeline | A date for the site as recorded — not a date of worship there. |
| Location | Recorded to the site On the atlas | A coordinate for the place. It locates the site; it does not draw its extent. |
| Dated activity | None recorded | A pin is a place, not an event. What happened at Petra, and when, is a separate claim, and this import holds none: it carries site locations, not dated activity. |
Nearby
Places nearby
The nearest this collection holds, measured between recorded coordinates.
What this means
Computed from coordinates, not stated by any source. Nearness is geometry, not a connection: two sites a kilometre apart may never have shared a worshipper, a tradition or a century. Where either coordinate is recorded only to a district, the distance is rounded and says “about”.
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43 km awayHumayma
archaeological site in southern Jordan -
76 km awayKhirbet et-Tannur
archaeological site in Jordan -
about 80 km awaySanctuary of Agios Lot
byzantine-period monastic site -
82 km awayAbdah
Mawqiʻ Atharī fī ṣaḥrāʼ al-Naqab -
98 km awayAqaba Church
church building in Aqaba, Jordan -
119 km awayHurvat Anim
archaeological site in Israel -
124 km awayEshtemoa synagogue
The synagogue of the Jewish community Eshtemoa in the Land of Israel -
137 km awayAbraham Avinu Synagogue
Synagogue in the city of Hebron
Connections
How Petra connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 4
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
6 statements on this record
- 2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: 4 recorded places within it. Each is marked where it is shown.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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