Item: Locus 26
Class: Locus
Number of Views: 6
Project: Petra Great Temple Excavations
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Description (18 properties)
| Stage Description | Main construction of the Bath Complex. | |
| Combined with | The original building-construction of the baths. | |
| Underlies | None. | |
| Overlies | Its own floor pavement of flattened ashlars and tiles. | |
| Definition | N and S Rooms, Opening between N Rooms and S Rooms Loci 19 and 21 with a horizontal lintel | |
| Stage | Stage 2 | |
| Abuts | East west wall between the N Rooms and the S Rooms. | |
| Size | 0.84 m north south-by-1.00 m east west. | |
| Preserved Height | 2.65 m. | |
| Phase Description | Phase VI: Late Nabataean pre-CE 106 minor collapses and repairs. At this time the northwest subterranean channel is damaged and clogged with CE 1st c. pottery. Repairs are made to the Hexagonal Pavement as well as to the East Exedra walls. Bath Complex built. | |
| Bonds to | East west wall between the N Rooms and the S Rooms. | |
| Description | This is an opening between Locus 19 and Locus 21. This is an inset area of plaster in S Rooms Chamber 3 that is cut into the north wall. Five courses of ashlars are under the plastered surface of the upper courses (not clear to the eye), and we assume they are set in two rows. The inset-alcove of earth and cement measures 1.00 m north south-by-0.84 m east west. The total height of the alcove is 2.65 m to the floor. The south wall door and the north wall have two or so courses hidden by plaster. Perhaps this is a specialized firing chamber. There are stacks of tiles surrounding the walls. The tiles measure 0.225 in width-by-0.22 m in length-by 0.11 m in height. They are smaller in size and rectilinear in shape, which is different from the usual hypocaust tiles found in the trench. This inset may have served as a specialized firing chamber for S Rooms activities. The bath system seems to have been planned as a single unit and it appears that it is on the same axis of orientation as the Great Temple, northwest to southeast. This locus along with others of the bath complex appears to be self-contained elements in an overall design that physically distinguish different areas of the baths. | |
| Phase | VI | |
| Location | In Trench 127 west. | |
| Bottom (m) | Closing elevation: 898.321 m. | |
| Top (m) | Opening elevation: 900.971 m. | |
| Cuts | East west wall between the N Rooms and the S Rooms. | |
| Architectural or Soil Locus? | Architectural |
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Martha Sharp Joukowsky, Martha Sharp Joukowsky. "Petra Great Temple Excavations: Locus 26 (Locus)" (Released 2007-11-12). Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed.) Open Context. <http://opencontext.org/subjects/B644D741-3A4C-4A2F-A454-B25E5495F0B0>
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