Item: Locus 2
Class: Locus
Number of Views: 6
Project: Petra Great Temple Excavations
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Description (18 properties)
| Top (m) | Opening elevation: 902.235 m. | |
| Stage Description | Main construction of the Bath Complex. | |
| Location | In the west of S Locus 5, the curvilinear chamber. | |
| Abuts | The walls of the Locus 5 curvilinear chamber. | |
| Stage | Stage 2 | |
| Definition | S Rooms Chamber 5, West Doorway and lintel, oriented north south (lintel removed from the north side of the doorway) in the Curvilinear Chamber Locus 5. | |
| Combined with | Most of the loci of the S Rooms curvilinear chamber Locus 5. | |
| Size | 1.15 m-by-0.34 m. | |
| Overlies | Lower walls of Locus 5 and the West Doorway. | |
| Underlies | The curvilinear walls of Locus 5. | |
| Bonds to | S Rooms curvilinear Chamber 5 Locus 5 walls. | |
| 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. | |
| Preserved Height | As above. | |
| Cuts | None. | |
| Phase | VI | |
| Description | This a worn doorway comprised of compromised weak uneven ashlars that appear to have been affected by multiple heat sources. As the excavation progressed, the lintel was about to collapse and had to be removed. Because the Locus 5 curvilinear chamber is spherical in shape, the lintel although carved with its back slightly rounded had no real lower support except for two worn, wet laid sandstone ashlars on either of its sides. 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. | |
| Bottom (m) | Closing elevation: 901.195 m. | |
| Architectural or Soil Locus? | Architectural |
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Martha Sharp Joukowsky, Martha Sharp Joukowsky. "Petra Great Temple Excavations: Locus 2 (Locus)" (Released 2007-11-12). Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed.) Open Context. <http://opencontext.org/subjects/D3D6BE1F-2EE9-439A-A045-3AE359FAACDD>
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