Rock-cut tomb

Midas Monument, a Phrygian rock-cut tomb deba (700 BCE)

Rock-cut Lycian tombs, 4th century BCE

Lycian rock-cut tomb with ogival barrel-vaulted roof, 4th century BCE

A rock-cut tomb is a burial chamber that is cut into an existing, naturally occurring rock formation, so a type of rock-cut architecture. They are usually cut into a cliff or sloping rock face, but may go downward in fairly flat ground. It was a common form of burial for the wealthy in ancient times in several parts of the world.

Important examples are found in

• Egyptian rock-cut tombs (1450 BCE, Thebes, Egypt).^[3]
• Midas monument (700 BCE).^[3][4]
• Etruscan rock-cut tombs, Etruria, Italy (500 BCE).^[3]
• Tomb of
  Darius I (Naqsh-e Rostam (480 BCE).^[3]
• Lycian rock-cut tombs (4th century BCE).^[3]
• Petra, Jordan (100 CE).^[3]

Kokh

A kukh (plural: kukhim, Hebrew: כּוּךְ), in Latin loculus, plural loculi, is a type of tomb complex characterized by a series of long narrow shafts, in which the deceased were placed for burial, radiating from a central chamber. These tomb complexes were generally carved into a rock face, and were usually closed with a stone slab and had channels cut into the centre of the shaft to drain any water that seeped through the rock.^{[citation needed]}

A kukh complex survives at the far west end of the

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  Gerdek Rock Tomb, Hellenistic period, 2nd century BCE, Çorum, Turkey
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  Etruscan rock-cut tomb in Blera, Italy
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  Rock-cut tombs in Myra
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  Al Khazneh or the Treasury at Petra
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  Tomb of Absalom in Jerusalem
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  Al-'Ula, Hejaz

  , Saudi Arabia (1st century CE)
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  Tomb of Darius the Great, part of the ancient Naqsh-e Rostam Necropolis, Iran
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  Kokhim: sepulchres (burial shafts) in Israel
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  Lycian tomb in Kastellorizo, Greece

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