Item: Locus 107
Class: Locus
Number of Views: 6
Project: Petra Great Temple Excavations
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Description (15 properties)
| Stage Description | Expansions in the north and west including new walls and a plaster and sandstone floor in Room 4. May be in Phase VI or VII. | |
| Definition | Room 7 Doorway | |
| Phase | V | |
| Overlies | Unknown. | |
| Phase Description | Phase V: Late Nabataean CE 1st c. redesign and repairs. The East 'Cistern' is used for storage and possibly as a marble workshop. Ceramics at the lowest level date before CE 100. The hearth in Room A is replaced with a tabun and a raised water basin and the Residential Quarter expands into the southeast and southwest. | |
| Bottom (m) | Closing Depth: 908.516 m. | |
| Location | In the far west of the Residential Quarter. | |
| Description | A doorway built into the west wall leading to the unexcavated western balk, and, presumably, to more Residential Quarters. | |
| Combined with | Locus 105 Room 7 west wall. | |
| Size | 1.88 m height-by-0.98 m width. | |
| Stage | Stage 6a | |
| Top (m) | Opening Depth: 910.546 m. | |
| Abuts | Locus 106 Room 7 threshold. | |
| Architectural or Soil Locus? | Architectural | |
| Underlies | Soil Locus 3. |
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Martha Sharp Joukowsky, Emma Susan Libonati, José I. Fusté. "Petra Great Temple Excavations: Locus 107 (Locus)" (Released 2007-11-12). Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed.) Open Context. <http://opencontext.org/subjects/5A7C8BB7-6B04-4F5B-AC4D-CCC5F17C20BF>
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Martha Sharp Joukowsky ( Editor ) , Emma Susan Libonati ( Observer ) , José I. Fusté ( Observer )
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