Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Petra' has mentioned 'Byzantine' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| In the Byzantine era several Christian churches were built, but the city continued to decline, and by the early Islamic era it was abandoned except for a handful of nomads. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 Importance in antiquity 2 Description 2.1 Water control 2.2 Access routes 2.3 City centre 2.4 Exterior platform 3 Tourism 4 Climate 5 History 5.1 Neolithic 5.2 Bronze Age 5.3 Iron Age Edom 5.4 The emergence of Petra 5.4.1 Petra as "Rekem" 5.4.2 Petra as "Sela" 5.5 Roman period 5.6 Byzantine period 5.7 Crusaders and Mamluks 5.8 19th and 20th centuries 6 Religion 7 UNESCO listing of ancient Petra and Bedouin heritage 8 Issues 9 Conservation 9.1 Conservation of cultural heritage 10 In popular culture 10.1 Literature 10.2 Plays 10.3 Films 10.4 Television 10.5 Music and musical videos 10.6 Video games 11 3D documentation 12 Gallery 13 See also 14 References 15 External links | WIKI |
| The Byzantine Church | WIKI |
| Byzantine period[edit] | WIKI |
| [39] The old city of Petra was the capital of the Byzantine province of Palaestina III and many churches from the Byzantine period were excavated in and around Petra. | WIKI |
| In one of them, the Byzantine Church, 140 papyri were discovered, which contained mainly contracts dated from 530s to 590s, establishing that the city was still flourishing in the 6th century. | WIKI |
| [40] The Byzantine Church is a prime example of monumental architecture in Byzantine Petra. | WIKI |
| The last reference to Byzantine Petra comes from the Spiritual Meadow of John Moschus, written in the first decades of the 7th century. | WIKI |
| Numerous scrolls in Greek and dating to the Byzantine period were discovered in an excavated church near the Temple of the Winged Lions in Petra in December 1993. | WIKI |
| This project was funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) 1974 - 1990 Conservation work in the excavated area of the Winged Lions Temple 1981 Different restoration works by the Department of Antiquities of Jordan[75] 1985 Restoration works at the Qasr El Bint Temple by the Department of Antiquities of Jordan[76] 1990 - 1998 Excavation and Conservation of the Byzantine Church by the American Centre of Oriental Research (ACOR) 1992 - 2002 Conservation and Restoration Center in Petra CARCIP, German GTZ Project. | WIKI |
| An ingenious water management system allowed extensive settlement of an essentially arid area during the Nabataean, Roman and Byzantine periods. | UNESCO |
| Remains of the Neolithic settlement at Beidha, the Iron Age settlement on Umm al Biyara, the Chalcolithic mining sites at Umm al Amad, the remains of Graeco-Roman civic planning including the colonnaded street, triple-arched entrance gate, theatre, Nymphaeum and baths; Byzantine remains including the triple-apses basilica church and the church created in the Urn Tomb; the remnant Crusader fortresses of Habis and Wueira; and the foundation of the mosque on Jebel Haroun, traditionally the burial place of the Prophet Aaron, all bear exceptional testimony to past civilizations in the Petra area. | UNESCO |
| Stabilization of freestanding monuments including the Qasr al Bint temple and the vaulted structure supporting the Byzantine forecourt to the Urn Tomb Church was carried out prior to inscription. | UNESCO |