[315] For the latter see Jaussen-Savignac, Mission archéologique en Arabie. A number of the tombs are dated, and the learned fathers of St. Étienne, in publishing the inscriptions, have given us a solid basis for the evolution of the Ḥedjr tomb. For the Petra tombs, Brünnow-Domaszewski, Provincia Arabia, vol. i; and Dalman, Petra und seine Felsheiligtümer, and Neue Petra-Forschungen. The material was brilliantly reviewed by Puchstein, Jahrbuch des k. d. arch. Instituts, 1910, vol. xxv; Arch. Anzeiger, p 3.
[316] Egypt, as Puchstein has observed, was always the dominant influence. The form and origin of Nabataean tombs goes back to the time of the Pharaohs, Arch. Anz., 1910, p. 40.
[317] Jaussen-Savignac, tomb A 5, p. 357.
[318] Idem, pp. 414 et seq.
[319] Domaszewski suggested that they were the graves of Greek merchants, Prov. Arabia, vol. i, p. 15.
[320] Puchstein, op. cit., table, p. 35.
[321] Jaussen-Savignac, op. cit., p. 382; the tomb called Al-Ferîd.
[322] Delbrück, op. cit., pt. ii, pp. 170, 173.
[323] Tomb of the legate Sextius Florentinus, Brünnow-Domaszewski, vol. i, p. 170; Corinthian grave, idem, p. 168; No. 34, idem, p. 172. Al-Dair, idem, p. 187; the Storied tomb, idem, p. 169; the Khazneh, idem, Plate 2, and Palestine Exploration Fund Annual, 1911, p. 95.
See Hittorff, ‘Pompeii et Petra,’ Revue arch. N.S., vol. vi, p. 7.