Item: Locus 47
Class: Locus
Number of Views: 7
Project: Petra Great Temple Excavations
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Description (14 properties)
| 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 4 | |
| Bonds to | Locus 110 Room 7 north wall. | |
| Location | In the south center of the Residential Quarter. | |
| Overlies | Bedrock, Locus 81 older Room 2 west wall/ Room 7 east wall. | |
| Abuts | Locus 86 Room 2 north pier, Locus 82 Room 2 floor, Locus 46 Room 7 south wall/ Room 8 north wall, Locus 69 Original Room 7 sub-floor. | |
| Bottom (m) | Closing Depth: 906.986 m. | |
| Phase | IV | |
| Definition | Room 2 West Wall/ Room 7 East Wall | |
| Description | A later addition to what may have been a wall which extended along the same orientation, and was later replaced with this feature. Perhaps this wall consists of a repair and extension to the earlier and better constructed Locus 81. This wall extends 7.33 m in length-by-0.85 m in width. It is composed of a hodgepodge of irregular stones, some with diagonal dressing and others with more roughly cut marks. Also, some parts of it contain many chinking stones. | |
| Top (m) | Opening Depth: 910.556 m. | |
| Stage Description | Major construction. | |
| 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 47 (Locus)" (Released 2007-11-12). Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed.) Open Context. <http://opencontext.org/subjects/8F1A4F53-FF49-47B7-897E-57E340EB935C>
Linked Items (7 items)
Locus 46 ( abuts )
Locus 69 ( abuts )
Locus 82 ( abuts )
Locus 86 ( abuts )
Locus 110 ( bonds with )
Locus 81 ( overlies )
Locus 3 ( underlies )
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Martha Sharp Joukowsky ( Editor ) , Emma Susan Libonati ( Observer ) , José I. Fusté ( Observer )
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