Item: Locus 113
Class: Locus
Number of Views: 8
Project: Petra Great Temple Excavations
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Description (13 properties)
| Definition | Plaster Adhering to Locus 6 Baroque Room West Wall/West Cistern East Wall | |
| 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 Description | Continuation of major construction: the west wall of the Baroque Room built and plastered. | |
| Stage | Stage 3 | |
| Top (m) | Opening Depth: 905.622 m. | |
| Overlies | None. | |
| Bottom (m) | Closing Depth: 905.382 m. | |
| Description | Only the remains of this wall plaster adhering to the bottom only of the west wall were preserved in situ. The decorative schema is six midnight blue squares extending the length of the wall, each surrounded by two white lines, to the affect of creating almost a fake paneling. The plaster remains only to a 0.24 m height. | |
| Underlies | Locus 25 decorative plaster fall and Locus 21 soil. | |
| Phase | IV | |
| Location | In the trench east, adhering to the bottom of the Baroque Room west wall. | |
| Abuts | Locus 6 Baroque Room west wall/West Cistern east wall. | |
| Architectural or Soil Locus? | Architectural |
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Martha Sharp Joukowsky, Emma Susan Libonati. "Petra Great Temple Excavations: Locus 113 (Locus)" (Released 2007-11-12). Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed.) Open Context. <http://opencontext.org/subjects/735C3412-4C58-4F37-8371-E29891CFB91A>
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