The Obelisk Tomb and the Triclinium, 2nd Century B.C.-1st Century A.D., carved stone

Whole artwork view. it is two separate monuments, stacked on top of each other: the Obelisk Tomb is the superior and it is named after the four pyramidal funeral stele in nabatean stile that hail from 1st Century B. C. ; in the middle point there is a niche embellished by a low relief column and a decoration with trigylphs and metopes that embraces the statue of a human figure bound in a cape; the lower part is called Triclinium, it is a zone dedicated to the annual funeral banquet; its facade, split itself on two levels, is majestic because of its six columns with nabatean style capitals surmounted by an architrave with a decoration and two pendiments: it is arched in the lower side and interrupted in the superior side. Obelisk on Attuf Ridge, Petra, Petra, Jordan