Eastern wall of the valley from which the rock-cut tomb was formed. A 4-min walk from Gethsemane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Absalom\
The lower section is a monolith, hewn out of the rocky slope of the Mount of Olives, while the upper part, rising higher than the original bedrock, is built of neatly cut ashlars. The lower half is thus a solid, almost perfectly cubical monolithic block, about 6 m (20 ft) square by 6.4 m (21 ft) high, surrounded on three sides by passageways which separate it from the vertically cut rock of the Mount of Olives.
Note the four square holes cut into the rock,which in ancient times held a bridge leading to the entrance of the tomb.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Absalom
See in context: [https://www.seetheholyland.net/wp-content/uploads/Kidron-Valley5.jpg (© Israel Ministry of Tourism)
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