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Tomb of Absalom

Tomb of Absalom

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Tomb of Absalom

Name: Tomb of Absalom
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Bumble-Bee

March 30, 2023

The tomb is not only a burial structure in its own right, with its upper part serving as a nefesh (funeral monument) for the tomb in its lower part, but it was probably also meant as a nefesh for the adjacent burial cave system known as the Cave or Tomb of Jehoshaphat, with which it forms one entity, built at the same time and following a single plan.[1]

The freestanding monument contains a burial chamber with three burial sites. The chamber is carved out of the solid lower section of the monument, but can only be accessed from the upper section via a built entrance and a staircase. It has been compared to Petra, given the rock-cut nature of the bottom segment and the style of the finial.

(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Absalom)

June 28, 2023

The size and massiveness of the tomb only becomes visible from HaOfel Straße, and thus from above.

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Elevation 690 m

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