Item: Locus 1
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 | S Rooms Locus 5 the curvilinear chamber. | |
| Definition | S Rooms Chamber 5, West Doorway and Lintel Removal of the Curvilinear Chamber 5, Locus 5 | |
| Overlies | Locus 2 Lintel Doorway. | |
| Stage | Stage 2 | |
| Bottom (m) | Closing elevation: 901.895 m. | |
| Size | 2.20 m-by-0.77 m. | |
| Underlies | Locus 7 Nabataean north-south wall. | |
| 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. | |
| Description | This is part of a room wall. Its condition was compromised, and to prevent the danger of its collapse, the lintel was removed. The composition of the reused hewn sandstones of varying sizes and shapes in the wall is uneven. The ashlars are wet laid and snecking stones are used as well as fired bricks and wet earth to support them. Large amounts of ash-ridden plaster and cement are also used to bond the stones together. It is assumed that this wall was plastered at the time it was constructed. I propose that the Locus 5 wall and this specific part were constructed at the time the Roman-Byzantine Bath Complex was constructed. The lintel is obviously reused, lifted from an earlier structure that existed at the Great Temple. 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. | |
| Cuts | None. | |
| Abuts | Locus 7 Nabataean north-south wall. | |
| Phase | VI | |
| Location | In the trench east, as a section of the S Rooms curvilinear Chamber 5, Locus 5. | |
| Top (m) | Opening elevation: 902.595 m. | |
| Preserved Height | 0.70 m. | |
| Bonds to | Locus 5 wall. | |
| Architectural or Soil Locus? | Architectural |
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Suggested Citation:
Martha Sharp Joukowsky, Martha Sharp Joukowsky. "Petra Great Temple Excavations: Locus 1 (Locus)" (Released 2007-11-12). Martha Sharp Joukowsky (Ed.) Open Context. <http://opencontext.org/subjects/FB2E29F5-ACA6-45B1-A35F-6E10469AE61E>
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