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Роясь тут по своим делам в сети, наткнулся на следующий обрывок с http://www.staff.hum.ku.dk/walmsley/Others/8ICHAJ%20web/8ichaj_abs2.htm:
"Hamed Qatamin, The Rock-Cut Tombs in Sela, Jordan
Since June 1990, an archaeological investigation of one of the better preserved ancient cities of Edomite was initiated by the author. The site has been known as Sela’ or as-Sela’, the name Sela’ has survived to this day, and the venerable "New Sela’" now lies just eastwards of the archaeological site, but in a much more accessible location. The ancient Sela’ is located in south central Jordan, 9 km south west of Tafilah and about 8 km north of Buseirah, the Edomite capital, and it is about 85 km north of Petra the capital of the Nabataean kingdom in a much later period.
Sela’ is a prototype for the slightly later Petra. In fact, Sela’ is like Petra, except it is older. Petra dates mostly from the fourth century B.C while the Sela’ remains are largely from the Bronze Age, and Iron Age. It is mentioned in the Old Testament, in 2 Kings and 2 Chronicles. However, Sela’ didn’t establishment high art and archaeological artifacts such as those found at Petra, except for an extremely inaccessible Babylonian Rock Relief found by the author in 1994, commemorating the conquest of Sela’ and the Edomite people by Nebonidus, an event that must have taken place about 55I B.C. The Rock reliefs located on the edge of a cliff are difficult to examine. Photographing them even from an aircraft is equally difficult because the area is inaccessible by an airplane; only a helicopter will permit a good photograph of it.
However, the scope of this paper is to present part of the result of our archaeological survey and recent excavation in the site. It deals with the rock-cut tombs and burial practices that taken place at Sela’.
More than ten rock-cut tombs were found in the site, no doubt of important people. I would assume that these burials were for the chieftains of the site. The tombs had been disturbed in ancient times.
One very large grave is situated on the top of a massive boulder that forms a sort of sub-butte and is quite difficult to access (figure). It marks the most important burial known up to now. The local inhabitants of the village "New Seta’" call this feature the Tomb of the King.
Sela’ tombs in their cutting, construction and burial customs closely parallel the Petra tombs. Thus, the discovery of these tombs shed more light on the history and archaeology of the site (Sela’), and help us to determine more clearly the relationships between the Nabataeans of Petra and the people of Sela’, who built the prototype for Petra."
Может, кого заинтересует? 85 км к северу от Петры, некий барельеф от Набонида (вполне любопытный вавилонский правитель), пейзажно-ландшафтные прелести...
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