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The so-called Treasury (Khazneh) in Petra, Jordan. The Treasury's rock-cut, two-storied façade is 24.9 m wide and almost 40 m high and strongly embodies the Hellenistic style and reflects the influence of Alexandria. Both stories are embellished in the Corinthian order and are elaborately decorated with friezes, sculptured figures, vegetation and motifs related to the afterlife and death. The so-called Treasury was a tomb, surely the last resting place of a king. The tomb was probably constructed in the 1st century BCE for King Aretas IV (r. 9 BCE to 40 CE).
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