Item: Locus 30
Class: Locus
Number of Views: 6
Project: Petra Great Temple Excavations
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Description (10 properties)
| Definition | Cave 1 | |
| Bottom (m) | Closing Depth: 907.215 m. | |
| Abuts | None. | |
| Underlies | None. | |
| Overlies | None. | |
| Location | In southern, center side of trench, inside the bedrock escarpment. | |
| Top (m) | Opening Depth: 908.615 m. | |
| Description | This cave is clearly intentionally cut out of the bedrock, as can be seen from the curvilinear chisel marks that still exist on some parts of its walls. Nevertheless, we can presume that it is unfinished, from the fact that its floor was never fully cut and leveled (see Locus 31 description). The front of the cave would have been blocked off by the Locus 20 wall, which extended east west and probably served as a fa | |
| Bonds to | None. | |
| Size | West: 3.00 m-by-south-by-3.10 m-by-east: 4.50 m. |
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Martha Sharp Joukowsky, Emma Susan Libonati, José I. Fusté. "Petra Great Temple Excavations: Locus 30 (Locus)" (Released 2007-11-12). Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed.) Open Context. <http://opencontext.org/subjects/A339FF4D-0324-4EA3-F397-1EBC8D96E42F>
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Martha Sharp Joukowsky ( Editor ) , Emma Susan Libonati ( Observer ) , José I. Fusté ( Observer )
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