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does it look normal sized? I ask because I know from pictures and the internet that (for instance) Petra is not human sized

It doesn't look particularly outsized.

But then how many cathedrals or major monuments are built to human scale? One of my favourite examples is from a temple to Ishtar in Syria:

Those footprints are about a metre long.

The last picture is now a useless "image hosted by tripod" placeholder. There is a picture here: https://www.alamy.com/ain-dara-iron-age-syrohittite-temple-f...

(There is a huge amount of conspiracy nonsense coming up when I search for this stuff.)

Very obviously not actual footprints.

But they do tell us something concrete about how the builders who carved them imagined their gods.