Item: Locus 23
Class: Locus
Number of Views: 13
Project: Petra Great Temple Excavations
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Description (18 properties)
| Stage Description | Main construction of the Bath Complex. | |
| Description | This room wall serves as a socle for the superstructure of the S Rooms Chambers 1 and 2. It is sturdy and uneven, patchy on its lower courses, but its upper hewn sandstone courses were secured with wet mortar. These walls had their surfaces covered with a decorative smooth plaster and its snecking stones were covered as well. The number of courses are not easily assessed because of the vast amounts of mortar and plaster covering the surface, however, the number of rows are two with a mud mortar filling sandwiched in between the facing walls. The bath system seems to have been planned as a single unit and it appears that it is on the same axis of orientation as the Great Temple, northwest to southeast. This locus along with others of the bath complex appears to be self-contained elements in an overall design that physically distinguish different areas of the baths. | |
| Definition | S Rooms east west wall dividing Chambers 1 and 2 | |
| Size | 0.53 m north south-by-3.54 m east west. | |
| Top (m) | Opening elevation: 901.509 m. | |
| Stage | Stage 2 | |
| Overlies | The south floor bedding of Chambers 1 and 2. | |
| Bottom (m) | Closing elevation: 898.809 m. | |
| Abuts | The south wall of Chamber 1 Locus 45, Locus 19 on the west, passageway Locus 41 to the south, and the chamber 2 north wall. | |
| Phase Description | Phase VI: Late Nabataean pre-CE 106 minor collapses and repairs. At this time the northwest subterranean channel is damaged and clogged with CE 1st c. pottery. Repairs are made to the Hexagonal Pavement as well as to the East Exedra walls. Bath Complex built. | |
| Location | East west wall in the south of the trench. | |
| Cuts | None. | |
| Preserved Height | 2.70 m. | |
| Combined with | All loci associated with the original building of the bath complex. | |
| Phase | VI | |
| Underlies | Loci 9 and 21 with fill and debris. | |
| Bonds to | None. | |
| Architectural or Soil Locus? | Architectural |
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Martha Sharp Joukowsky, Martha Sharp Joukowsky. "Petra Great Temple Excavations: Locus 23 (Locus)" (Released 2007-11-12). Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed.) Open Context. <http://opencontext.org/subjects/0AF75D7E-4BED-41D0-745B-8F5BD84FE701>
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