The Tomb of Absalom, also called Absalom’s Pillar, is an ancient monumental rock-cut tomb with a conical roof located in the Kidron Valley in Jerusalem, a few metres from the Tomb of Zechariah and the Tomb of Benei Hezir. Wikipedia A 4-min walk from Gethsemane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Absalom
Photogrammetry of bottom section olny. The tomb is 20 metres (66 ft) in height. currently inaccessible. (no possibility to fly a drone there). The monument proper stands on a square base and consists of two distinct parts. 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.
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