Wadi Sabra
Wadi Sabra is only 8 kilometers south of Petra. I have never been there, but I received this beautiful picture from Alejandro Britos, expert on ancient theaters, from Burgos, Spain. The theater is part of a Nabataeau sanctuary and has remained virtually uninvestigated. The first to survey the theater site was the French traveller L. de Laborde, who reached Wadi Sabra in 1828, and whose survey also included the many building remains and a rather detailed map of the site. Because of the shape of the orchestra, some travellers and surveyors, with De Laborde, have designated the theater as a naumachia . The theater is completely hewn out of the stone. De Laborde published his findings in Pétra Retrouvée, voyage de l'Arabie Pétrée, 1828, which were used in a recent bilbiography Narratives of journeys to Petra between 1812 and 1914, compiled by Norman L. Lewis in 2004.