Item: Locus 4
Class: Locus
Number of Views: 8
Project: Petra Great Temple Excavations
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Description (13 properties)
| Abuts | Locus 1 bedrock escarpment, Locus 24 hexagonal pavement floor, Locus 38 Baroque Room floor, Locus 9 hydraulic cement, Locus 19 Room 9 north wall/Room 1 south wall, Locus 20 Room 1 north wall/ Room 3 south wall, and Locus 6 Baroque Room west wall/West Cistern east wall. | |
| Top (m) | Opening Depth: 909.642 m. | |
| Phase Description | Phase IV: Nabataean Grand Design: 1st c. BCE to CE 1st c. The remainder of the subterranean canalization is installed including the East Plaza Great Cistern. The East and South Perimeter Walls are installed and Rooms A and B and the Tabun Cave Room are built into the casemate of the East Perimeter Wall. The East Plaza and South Passageway are paved and the temple Forecourt is raised and laid with a small hexagonal pavement. Residential Quarter is built in the southwest corner of the precinct. Also at this time the Central Staircase of Phase II is blocked and the lateral East and West Staircases are constructed to access the Lower Temenos. | |
| Stage | Stage 2 | |
| Underlies | Locus 3 overburden. | |
| Description | This is the only architectural feature that is definitively shared between the rooms off the South Passageway of the Upper Temenos and the southwest Residential Quarter (Trench 94). The lack of further shared features between these two areas was due to the central portion not being excavated. The nicely hewn and dressed wall is composed of large ashlars that are fitted tightly together. In width they average 1.28 m. The wall extends 11.00 m from where excavation commenced at the eastern boundary of trench 89 to the central portion where it ends just to the east of the entrance to Cave 1. This wall also provides the east wall for Room 1. | |
| Definition | Continuation of the South Wall from Trench 83 | |
| Bottom (m) | Closing Depth: 905.382 m. | |
| Stage Description | First major construction period: CE 1st c. The major architectural components of the southwest rooms built. | |
| Overlies | Presumably Bedrock, Locus 109 Room 1 floor, Locus 31 floor of Cave 1. | |
| Bonds to | Locus 8—Shrine Room west wall/ Baroque Room east wall, Locus 15 West Cistern west wall. | |
| Phase | IV | |
| Architectural or Soil Locus? | Architectural |
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Martha Sharp Joukowsky, Emma Susan Libonati. "Petra Great Temple Excavations: Locus 4 (Locus)" (Released 2007-11-12). Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed.) Open Context. <http://opencontext.org/subjects/5773B9D0-5CFC-4D14-87FC-859FDFEFDFE9>
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