Item: Locus 24
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. | |
| Overlies | Unknown. | |
| Preserved Height | 0.22 m. | |
| Stage | Stage 2 | |
| Description | This sandstone floor is uneven, patchy, broken and has been though multiple reuses of burning. There are at least three levels of floor. At the bottom is an irregular rough unhewn course, in the middle are unhewn pavement stones and at the top are round hypocaust tile fragments intermixed with mortar and stones. The upper floor is set to slope towards the middle of the chamber. 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. | |
| Size | 0.87 m north south-by-2.66 m east west. | |
| Abuts | The east west wall Locus 20 and east west wall Locus 23. | |
| Underlies | Loci 21 and 9. | |
| 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. | |
| Top (m) | Opening elevation: 898.969 m. | |
| Cuts | None. | |
| Bottom (m) | Closing elevation: 898.742 m. | |
| Definition | S Rooms Floor (partial) | |
| Phase | VI | |
| Location | In the west of S Rooms Chamber 1. | |
| Bonds to | None. | |
| Architectural or Soil Locus? | Architectural |
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Martha Sharp Joukowsky, Martha Sharp Joukowsky. "Petra Great Temple Excavations: Locus 24 (Locus)" (Released 2007-11-12). Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed.) Open Context. <http://opencontext.org/subjects/E8259C89-1B9E-44EE-B85A-8B7E6C0EA904>
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